Pique

Definition: Pique

Pique

Adjective

1. Of textiles; having parallel raised lines.

Noun

1. Tightly woven fabric with raised cords.

2. A sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp firewood".

Verb

1. Cause to feel resentment or indignation; "Her tactless remark offended me".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pique" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Pique

Excitation

Stimulate; exsuscitate; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon; (incite); hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.

Irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's temper; fool to the top of one's bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil; lash into fury; (wrath).

Hate

Umbrage, pique, grudge; dudgeon, spleen bitterness, bitterness of feeling; ill blood, bad blood; acrimony; malice; implacability; (revenge).

Pain

Irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense; (resentment).

Pride

Pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself; (vanity).

Resentment

Pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning, heart-swelling; rankling.

Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.

Vanity

Verb: be vain; Adjective:, be vain of; pique oneself; (pride); lay the flattering unction to one's soul.

Crosswords: Pique

French (dig, Pike, spade, stings), Portuguese (lance, peak, pike, zest), Spanish (pique).

The Pique Poquette of Paris (1966)

La Dame de pique (1965)

Chien de pique (1960)

La Dame de pique (1958)

Rouletabille contre la dame de pique (1945)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• La pique et la croix : histoire religieuse de la Râevolution franðcaise (reference)

• Las De Pique Un Parfum De Psyche (reference)

• Pique (reference)

• Pique Nique de La Famille Sour (reference)

• Qui a pique mon fromage? (Book & Audio CD) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame / Davis, Marusin, Gustafson, Palmer, London Philharmonic (reference)

• Pique Dame (reference)

• Pique Dame - Complete Opera (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pique. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "pique": be in a pique ♦ pique oneself ♦ pique oneself on ♦ pique oneself on smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "pique": pique-nique.

Albanian

pakënaqësi (catcall, complaint, disaffection, discontent, discontentment, disgust, displeasure, dissatisfaction, grouch, pet), zgjoj kureshtjen, sedër e lënduar, inatos (anger, displease, enrage, exasperate, gall, make angry, rile, spite, throw out), inat (anger, blood, Dander, disappointment, down, dudgeon, ire, malice, miff, must, rage, rampage, rancor, rancour, spunk, temper), i lëndoj sedrën, fyej (affront, aggrieve, damnify, deal, desecrate, disoblige, displease, grieve, injure, insult, offend, outrage, revile, trespass, vex, vituperate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غيظ (anger, annoy, chafe, embitter, fret, gall, incense, infuriate, ire, irritate, madden, nettle, offend, peeve, provoke, rage, resentment, rib, rile, ruffle, scandalize, spite, twit, vex, wrath), ‏غم (anguish, chagrin, gloom, grief, melancholy, oppress, oppression, soreness, sorrow), ‏غل (cuff, fetter, jealousy, malevolence, manacle, shackle, venom, yield), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏ضيق الصدر (impatient, restless), ‏أثار الحقد, ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, flurry, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

убождам (prick), раздразням (crab, exasperate, heat, peeve, pip, ruffle), възбуждам любопитството на, възбуждам интереса на, възбуждам (actuate, agitate, arouse, engage, enkindle, excite, ferment, heat, inflame, irritate, key up, provoke, raise, set up, stimulate, sting, stir, thrill, turn on), накърнявам самочувствието, засягам (advert, affect, afflict, apply, bruise, concern, effect, hit, hurt, import, offend, refer, regard, tell, touch, treat of), засегнато честолюбие, пике. (various references)

Chinese 

生气 (Displease, Displeased, Displeasing, sulk, Sulks). (various references)

Czech

popudit (incense, irritate, nettle, provoke), hnìv (anger, Dander, ire, passion, rage, spunk, wrath). (various references)

Farsi 

پیکه , پارچه ء راه راه نخی , منبت کاری (Woodcarving), مشاجره (Contention, Contest, Dispute, Plea, Scuffle, Wrangle), تحریک کردن (Actuate, Agitate, Annoy, Arouse, Bestir, Edge, Egg, Excite, Fuel, Ginger, Goad, Hypo, Incense, Incite, Instigate, Motivate, Move, Prick, Prime, Provoke, Stimulate), زخم زبان زدن (Baste, Belabor, Lambaste), انزجار (Abhorrence, Antipathy, Disgust, Mislike, Nausea, Phobia), رنجش (Acrimony, Annoyance, Bother, Grief, Irritation, Miff, Offense, Resentment, Umbrage, Vexation). (various references)

French

piquer (pick, Pike, pinch), ressentiment, irriter, froisser, dépiter, dépit. (various references)

German

pikee (warp knitted piqué), reizen (abet, aggravate, annoy, appeal, bid, bidden, bidding, excite, incite, irritate, irritation, itch, peeve, provoke, rile, rouse, stimulate, stir up, tease, tempt, to irritate, to pique), groll (anger, dudgeon, grievance, grudge, rancor, rancors, rancour, rancours, resentment, wrath), gekränktsein. (various references)

Greek 

κέντημα τησ φιλοτιμίασ, κεντώ (embroider, filigree, goad, jab, nettle, nip, pick, poke, prick, prickle, prod, puncture, spur, stick, twinge, velicate), πικάρω (vex), πηκέ, ερεθισμόσ (chafe at, fret, irritation, vexedness), ερεθίζω (aggravate, chafe, exacerbate, exasperate, excite, fret, incite, inflame, irritate, nettle, provoke, rankle, rile, stimulate, vex, whet). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעורר טינה, טינה (complaint, grudge, spite). (various references)

Hungarian

neheztelés (despite, displease, displeasure, dudgeon, grudge, ill feeling, rancour, resentment), sértett hiúság, sértődöttség (resentfulness), sértődés, piké (piquet). (various references)

Italian

puntiglio (stubbornness), picca (Pike), risentimento (dudgeon, resentment), indispettire (annoy, become annoyed, become vexed, peeve, vex). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ピギーバック輸送 (10^-12, pf, picket, pickles, picnic, pico-, picofarad, picot, pictograph, picture, piggyback system, Pisa, pixar, pixel, Pygmy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ピケ (picket). (various references)

Manx

cur camman er, camman (grudge, malice). (various references)

Pig Latin

iquepay.(various references)

Portuguese

picar (bite, chop, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, mince, pick, point, prick, prickle, punch, spall, stab, stick, sting, swot, tingle), ressentimento (dudgeon, jealousy, resentment, umbrage), melindre (umbrage), melindrar (offend, shock), irritar (aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, bullyrag, chafe, corkscrew, disgruntle, displeasure, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, fash, feeze, gall, huff, incense, irritate, madden, nark, needle, nettle, offend, peeve, provoke, rile, roil, roughen, ruffle, sharpen, spite, thurify, vex), irritação (aggravation, anger, chafe, exacerbation, exasperation, fret, irritancy, provocation, resentment, spunk), despeito (despite, envy, jaundice, pet, resentment, spite, umbrage), aborrecer (annoy, badger, blister, bore, bother, bug, burst with anger, disgust, displease, displeasure, distaste, fash, feeze, hate, hump, importune, irk, leech, loathe, molest, nag, nettle, offend, pester, plague, put about, spite, tire, torment, trouble, vex). (various references)

Romanian

pichet (picket, picquet, post, stake), picã (acrimony, grudge, grudging, heart-burning, malice, quarrel, spades, spite), supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), stârni (arouse, cause, create, enkindle, excite, fan, ferment, generate, hunt out, incite, induce, invite, kick up, kindle, pander to, quicken, remove, rouse, spring, start, stir, tickle), mâhni (afflict, aggrieve, deject, desolate, distress, grieve, pain, sadden), jigni (aggrieve, cut, grate, Harrow, hit, hurt, injure, insult, mortify, offend, touch, vex, wrong), irita (aggravate, annoy, chafe, crab, exacerbate, exasperate, fret, heat, irritate, nettle, rasp, relax, ruffle, stroke smb.'s hair the wrong way, vex), ciudã (despite, envy, fury, grudge, rage, rancor, rancour, resentment, spite, vexation), ambiţiona (arouse the ambition, simulate), împunge (butt, jab, pink, prick, prod, sting, stitch, thrust). (various references)

Russian 

уязвлять обида, размолвка (miff, spat, tiff), раздражение (annoyance, exasperation, fret, galling, inflammation, irritation, petulance, provocation, rasp, ruffle, senitization, vexation), возбуждать (actuate, agitate, energize, engender, exasperate, excite, flush, galvanize, hype up, incite, inflame, innervate, kindle, lash), обида (a smack in the eye /in the face/, grievance, hurt, injury, offence, offense, umbrage, wound), задеть самолюбие, задетое самолюбие, пике (twill), пикировать (dart down, dart downwards, dive, fall into a nosedive, nosedive, swoop down), досада (annoyance, chagrin, disappointment, discontent, exasperation, ire, nuisance, pinprick, rasp, vexation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podstaći (abet, enforce, exhort, fire, foment, galvanize, goad, incite to, induce, instigate, spark, stir, stoke, whet), pikirati (dive), pike, uvrediti (affront, give offense, hurt, insult, offend, outrage), uvreda (affront, assault, contumely, dudgeon, grievance, hurt, indignity, insult, knock, offence, offense, outrage, umbrage, wound), uvređenost. (various references)

Spanish

resentimiento (resentment, umbrage). (various references)

Swedish

såra (aggrieve, flesh, hurt, injure, offend, touch, wound), förtrytelse (dejection, displeasure, dudgeon, indignation, resentment, sadness, sorrow). (various references)

Turkish

pike (dive, diving, nosedive), merak uyandırmak (make a sensation), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), kırgınlık (chagrin, disappointment, gall), incitmek (aggrieve, cut, cut up, gall, harm, hurt, hurt deeply, injure, mortify, offend, scarify, scathe, scotch, sting, strain, touch, wound), gücenmiş olma, gücendirmek (affront, badger, chafe, disoblige, displease, gall, give offence, give offense, give umbrage, huff, miff, offend, tread on smb.'s corns, vex), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

уколоти (barb, pinprick, puncture), роздратування (anger, annoyance, chafe, disgust, distemper, exacerbation, exasperation, fret, harass, inflammation, irritation, needle, peeve, petulance, petulancy, provocation, teen), незлагода (misunderstanding, rupture, spat, tiff), збуджувати (actuate, agitate, amove, animate, arouse, electrify, elevate, exalt, excite, flurry, flush, incite, innervate, key up, kindle, provoke, stimulate, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up, work up), пікірувати (dive, nosedive), досада (annoyance, chagrin, heartburning, nuisance, pinprick, vexation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự oán giận, sự hờn giận, sự giận dỗi (black dog). (various references)

pique. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pique": piqued, piques, piquet, piquets. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pique" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gicquel, gique, ique, lique, Liqun, nique, opique, Pacque, Paque, pasque, pasquil, peque, pequena, Pequo, pesue, picque, pigue, piqe, piqu, piquae, piquen, piquer, Piquerie, piquey, plique, poque, puisque, pulque, Pulqui, puqe, rique. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: equip.

-1 letter: quip.

-2 letters: pie, piu.

-3 letters: pe, pi, up.

+1 letter: equips, piqued, piques, piquet.

+2 letters: perique, picquet, piquets, piroque, quipped, quipper, reequip.

+3 letters: applique, equipage, equipped, equipper, periques, physique, picquets, piquance, piroques, postique, pratique, quippers, quipster, reequips.

+4 letters: appliqued, appliques, equipages, equipment, equipoise, equippers, equipping, physiques, pipsqueak, piquances, postiques, pratiques, queenship, quickstep, quintuple, quipsters.

+5 letters: antiplaque, equipments, equipoised, equipoises, parqueting, pasquinade, perquisite, picaresque, pipsqueaks, piquancies, prequalify, prerequire, quadriceps, queenships, quicksteps, quintupled, quintuples, quintuplet, radiopaque, reequipped, semiopaque, unequipped.