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Pettier
- adjective - (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
- contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
- inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
- Most trivial
Petties
- noun - larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)
Petting
- verb - affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)
- stroke or caress gently; "pet the lamb"
- stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking
Pettish
- adjective - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Pewters
- noun - any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)
Pewtery
- - Belonging to, or resembling, pewter; as, a pewtery taste.
Peytrel
- - The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. [Spelt also peitrel.] See Poitrel.
Photics
- - The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.
Photism
- - A luminous image or appearance of a hallucinatory character.