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Look up petty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Petty may refer to: Ajae Petty (born 2002), American basketball player Bruce Petty (1929–2023), Australian
Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was the leader and frontman of the rock bands
Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937), nicknamed "the King", is an American former stock car racing driver who competed from 1958 to 1992 in the former
Lori Petty (born October 14, 1963) is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She made her big-screen debut appearing in the 1990 comedy film
John Petty may refer to: John Petty (priest) (1935–2017), Anglican provost and Dean of Coventry John Petty (Primitive Methodist minister) (1807–1868)
Lee Petty, and father of racer Adam Petty, who was killed in a crash during practice in May 2000. Petty last drove the No. 45 Dodge Charger for Petty Enterprises
Petty, or Pettie is a place and parish in Highland, Scotland. The village of Petty is about 7 miles (11 km) north east of Inverness. The parishes of Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were an American rock band formed in Gainesville, Florida, in 1976. The band originally comprised lead singer and rhythm
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
discography of Tom Petty, who was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Petty released 13 studio albums as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Courts of petty session, established from around the 1730s, were local courts consisting of magistrates, held for each petty sessional division (usually
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Petty, Handsome
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Sail; Petty Trade
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Egyptian
, a petty king of Egypt.
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Sail, Petty trade
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African
a petty chief.
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Sail, Petty trade
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Americanized form of French Petitjean.English
Americanized form of French Petitjean.English : variant spelling of Pettyjohn.
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Petty, Handsome
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Reduced form of Irish McCage, a variant of McCaig.English (East Anglia)
Reduced form of Irish McCage, a variant of McCaig.English (East Anglia) : from Middle English, Old French cage ‘cage’, ‘enclosure’ (Latin cavea ‘container’, ‘cave’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker and seller of small cages for animals or birds, or a keeper of the large public cage in which petty criminals were confined for short periods of imprisonment.
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English : variant of Petit. The name is also found in Ireland, the main branch there having been established in County Kerry in the 17th century by Sir William Petty.
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English : from Old French petit ‘little’ + the personal name John, hence a nickname for a little man (or an ironic nickname for a big man; compare the character Little John in the legend of Robin Hood) named John.
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English : from Middle English pyion, peion ‘young bird’, ‘young pigeon’ (from Old French pijon), a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of wood pigeons or a nickname for a foolish or gullible person, since the birds were easily taken.English : altered form of the nickname Pet(y)jon (see Pettyjohn).Irish (County Monaghan) : local form of McGuigan, from Gaelic Mac Uiginn ‘son of the Viking’.
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Arabic, Australian, Christian, French, Hebrew, Japanese, Muslim, Polish
Praised; Goodness; Excellence
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Polish feminine form of Latin Adrianus, ADRIANNA means "from Hadria."Â
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British, English, German
Divine Friend
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Divine; Mythological Ancient Roman Divinity Diana was Noted for Beauty and Swiftness; Often Depicted as a Huntress
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Victory of the forest
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Practitioner
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Gold
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Sun of Ray
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Word of God
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Dear, History
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n.
The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot.
n.
A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
v. i.
To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.
n.
Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices.
a.
A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.
n.
One who practices petty thefts.
superl.
Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.
n.
A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.
superl.
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
a.
Of little worth or importance; inconsiderable; trifling; petty; paltry; as, a trivial subject or affair.
v. t. & i.
Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
n.
A petty or powerless king.
v. i.
To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
v. t.
To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
n.
Inferior or subordinate work; petty business.
n.
A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.
n.
A petty or inferior Whig; -- used in contempt.
v. t.
To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
v. t.
To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
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A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.