pet keet
- noun
- /pɛt kit/
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- When I was a child, I had a bright green pet keet that would whistle every morning.
Examples
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They bought a new cage for their pet keet to give it more space to play.
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My pet keet loves to sing.
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Her pet keet escaped from its cage and perched on the curtain rod.
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Do you have a pet keet?
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They bought a new cage for their pet keet to give it more space to play.
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When I was a child, I had a bright green pet keet that would whistle every morning.
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Her pet keet escaped from its cage and perched on the curtain rod.
Synonyms
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1.8
A small thin bird with a long tail often kept as a pet
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6.5
A pet bird often kept and loved like a parrot
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8.9
A tame bird often kept as a pet that can copy human speech
A young bird like a parrot or guinea fowl
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small pet bird (parakeet)' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'pet' (domesticated companion animal) with 'keet' (a young parrot). This straightforward noun–noun compositional pattern follows normal English compounding rules and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The compound noun pet keet comes from people shortening parakeet to keet and adding pet, so it names a small, friendly bird kept at home. Picture a bright little bird on your shoulder or in a cage, and you can see why it means 'a small pet bird'.