pique

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verb
V_es/s
piques
V_ing/Gerund
piquing
V_ed/pp
piqued
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.

    Đồng nghĩa: fret, nettle, sting, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).

    I believe this will pique your interest.

    Đồng nghĩa: excite, stimulate

  3. 3.

    (reflexive, transitive)To pride (oneself) on something.

  4. 4.

    (obsolete, reflexive, transitive)To excite or stimulate (oneself).

  5. 5.

    (intransitive)To take pride in.

  6. 6.

    (intransitive)To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.

  7. 7.

    (intransitive, obsolete, rare)To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.

  8. 8.

    (ambitransitive, archaic, obsolete)(ambitransitive, card games, archaic or obsolete) To score a pique against (someone).

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
piques
  1. 1.

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

  2. 2.

    (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.

  3. 3.

    (countable, obsolete)In pique of honour: a matter, a point.

  4. 4.

    (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.

  5. 5.

    (obsolete)A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.

  6. 6.

    midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky (US)

  7. 7.

    (alt of, alternative, countable, uncountable)(sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”).

  8. 8.

    (obsolete, rare)(pathology, obsolete, rare) Synonym of pica (“a disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”).

    Đồng nghĩa: pica

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The verb is borrowed from French piquer, from Middle French piquer, picquer, from Old French piquer (to pierce with the tip of a sword), from proto-Romance or *pīccare (to sting; to strike) or *pikkāre, and then either:

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