noun · countable / uncountable · rare

pique

pique · piques

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Enmity, ill feeling; a feeling of animosity or a disputeEnmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.

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UK/piːk/US/pik/

» You've piqued my interest.

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Meaning

7 senses

(uncountable)Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
доса́даdosáda, раздраже́ниеrazdražénije
(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.
In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
Midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky (US)
(countable, obsolete)In pique of honour: a matter, a point.
(obsolete)A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.
(obsolete, rare)Synonym of pica (“a disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”).

More definitions

tightly woven fabric with raised cords
a sudden outburst of anger

Examples

24 sentences

You've piqued my interest.
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My curiosity was piqued.
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Tom's curiosity was piqued.
deToms Neugier war geweckt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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Yanni saw something that piqued his curiosity.
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His curiosity piqued, he asked a question.
deAngetrieben durch seine Neugier stellte er eine Frage. — xtofu80
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Translations

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Русский

By meaning 1

enmity, ill feeling; a feeling of animosity or a dispute:

Origin

The verb is borrowed from French piquer (“to prick, sting; to anger, annoy; (reflexive) to

The verb is borrowed from French piquer (“to prick, sting; to anger, annoy; (reflexive) to get angry; to provoke, stimulate; (reflexive) to boast about”), from Middle French piquer, picquer (“to prick, sting; to anger, annoy; (reflexive) to get angry”), from Old French piquer (“to pierce with the tip of a sword”), from proto-Romance or Vulgar Latin *pīccare (“to sting; to strike”) or *pikkāre, and then either:

The noun is borrowed from French pic, Middle French pic (“pique in the game of piquet; pike (tool)”), picq (“game of piquet”), from Vulgar Latin *pīccus (“sharp point, peak; pike, spike”), possibly from Frankish *pikk, *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pikjaz, *pīkaz (“sharp point, peak; pickaxe; pike”); further etymology unknown. Doublet of pike.

Borrowed from Spanish pique, from Central Quechua piki.

A variant of pica, or from its etymon Late Latin pica (“disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”), from Latin pīca (“jay; magpie”) (from the idea that magpies will eat almost anything), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“magpie; woodpecker”).

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