Verb
pettle (third-person singular simple present pettles, present participle pettling, simple past and past participle pettled)
(transitive, Scotland) To fondle or pet; to pamper.
Parents Chrissie (Michelle Monteith) and Jeremy (Jordan Pettle) anxiously await the results of their daughter’s multiple-week stint in the pediatric ward while doctors try to remove her brain tumour. Source: Internet