Pique
[piːk] or [pik]
Definition
(noun.) tightly woven fabric with raised cords.
(noun.) a sudden outburst of anger; 'his temper sparked like damp firewood'.
(verb.) cause to feel resentment or indignation; 'Her tactless remark offended me'.
Edited by Jeffrey--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
(n.) The jigger. See Jigger.
(n.) A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.
(n.) Keenly felt desire; a longing.
(n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
(v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
(v. t.) To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.
(v. t.) To pride or value; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To cause annoyance or irritation.
Typist: Pansy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Resentment (slight), grudge, umbrage, offence, wounded pride.
v. a. [1]. Stimulate, incite, urge, instigate, spur, goad, set on, stir up.[2]. Offend, displease, affront, provoke, incense, irritate, chafe, nettle, vex, fret, sting, exasperate, wound, give offence to, give umbrage to.
Checked by Justin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Grudge, offence, umbrage, spite, {resentment_(slight)}, wounded_pride,[SeeGRUDGE]
Typist: Osborn
Definition
n. an offence taken: a feeling of anger or vexation caused by wounded pride: spite: nicety: punctilio.—v.t. to wound the pride of: to offend: to pride or value (one's self):—pr.p. piq′uing; pa.t. and pa.p. piqued.
Edited by Jonathan
Examples
- This was his answer, written, I suppose, in some pique: True you have given me many sweet kisses, and a lock of your beautiful hair. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You have no idea how these enigmatic speeches pique my curiosity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I was the truest wife that ever lived, though I married my husband out of pique, because somebody else--but never mind that. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This from me may appear to strangers like personal pique, but all who know me will acquit me of having ever, in my life, coveted the society of fools. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Miss Van Osburgh's vague feeling of pique was struggling for appropriate expression. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In what way does it pique you? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As soon as the white-haired man had vanished she said in a tone of pique to the child, Ungrateful little boy, how can you contradict me? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Beautifully finished furniture in quartered oak has always excited the pleasure, and piqued the curiosity of the uninformed as to how this result is obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Also he was piqued that he had been what he called such a stupid lout as to ask that intervention from Mr. Farebrother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He found a pleasure in setting up Blandois as the type of elegance, and making him a satire upon others who piqued themselves on personal graces. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I exclaimed: and indeed there was something in the hasty and unexplanatory reply which, instead of allaying, piqued my curiosity more than ever. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At any rate, Betteredge seemed to be piqued by something in the reply which I had just made to him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I was a little surprised--perhaps a little piqued also--by these last words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The other appointments of the mansion partook of the rude simplicity of the Saxon period, which Cedric piqued himself upon maintaining. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Externally it presents the appearance of some curious, uncouth, cast iron box, which, to the uninitiated, piques the curiosity, and when opened adds no explanation of its real character. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is one that piques me singularly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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