Home

pettus (patoos) -noun

Pettus is an Estonian word for fraud or crime. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of fraud is:

  1. a. specificallyintentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right
    b. an act of deceiving or misrepresenting
  2. a. a person who is not what he or she pretends to be
    b. one that is not what it seems or is represented to be