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| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : peek |
| Phonetic Transcription : pik |
Definition of pique
Origin :- 1530s, "fit of ill feeling," from Middle French pique "a prick, sting, irritation," noun of action from piquer (see pike (n.2)).
- noun anger, irritation
- verb offend, provoke
- He was used to dealing with pique in women, and had found it the most manageable of weaknesses.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Only, you oughtn't to pique a curiosity you don't mean to satisfy.'
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- Do they pique themselves upon their courage, their gallantry, and their adventure?
- Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
- When I quit her Majesty's service it will be neither for pique nor for love.
- Extract from : « Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas » by Lloyd Osbourne
- "Surely these gentlemen are scarcely so very anxious about me," said I, in some pique.
- Extract from : « That Boy Of Norcott's » by Charles James Lever
- And now she's older and has got over her pique, she sees what she has lost.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- It is hard to say if there might not have been some leaven of "pique" in these reasonings.
- Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- Even the very fire, in a fit of pique, has degenerated into a dull glow.
- Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
- His unconcern should have infuriated them, but it served to pique.
- Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber
- She had no desire to pique him further by seeing too much of Kerr.
- Extract from : « The Coast of Chance » by Esther Chamberlain
Synonyms for pique
- absorb
- affront
- annoy
- annoyance
- arouse
- blowup
- bother
- bug
- conniption
- dander
- displease
- displeasure
- egg on
- exasperate
- excite
- fire up
- flare-up
- gall
- galvanize
- get
- get a rise out of
- get under skin
- give a hard time
- give the business
- goad
- goose
- grab
- grudge
- huff
- hurt
- ignite
- incense
- irk
- irritate
- kindle
- make waves
- miff
- mortify
- motivate
- move
- nettle
- offend
- offense
- peeve
- pet
- prick
- provocation
- put out
- quicken
- resentment
- rile
- rise
- rouse
- ruckus
- slow burn
- snit
- sore
- spur
- stew
- stimulate
- sting
- stir
- storm
- tiff
- umbrage
- vex
- vexation
- whet
- work up
- wound
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