The sense of ' petting ' meaning to stroke is first found 1818. Slang sense of kiss and caress is from 1920 (implied in petting, in f. Scott fitzgerald).

The word pet has a few different definitions (my own paraphrase): An animal kept for companionship. To affectionately caress. My question is, which of these usages originated.

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