Definitions from Wiktionary (pique)
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
▸ verb: To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
▸ verb: (reflexive) To pride (oneself) on something.
▸ verb: (reflexive, obsolete) To excite or stimulate (oneself).
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: To take pride in.
▸ verb: To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
▸ verb: (obsolete, rare) To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
▸ noun: (countable, obsolete) In pique of honour: a matter, a point.
▸ noun: (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, card games, archaic or obsolete) To score a pique against (someone).
▸ noun: (obsolete) A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.
▸ noun: (pathology, obsolete, rare) Synonym of pica (“a disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”)
▸ noun: (sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”) [(sewing) A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.]
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▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
▸ verb: To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
▸ verb: (reflexive) To pride (oneself) on something.
▸ verb: (reflexive, obsolete) To excite or stimulate (oneself).
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: To take pride in.
▸ verb: To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
▸ verb: (obsolete, rare) To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
▸ noun: (countable, obsolete) In pique of honour: a matter, a point.
▸ noun: (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, card games, archaic or obsolete) To score a pique against (someone).
▸ noun: (obsolete) A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.
▸ noun: (pathology, obsolete, rare) Synonym of pica (“a disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”)
▸ noun: (sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”) [(sewing) A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.]
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