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pique

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1. pique - Noun

2. pique - Verb

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A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.

The jigger. See Jigger.

A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.

Keenly felt desire; a longing.

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

To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.

To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.

To pride or value; -- used reflexively.

To cause annoyance or irritation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing. Jim Butcher

Everybody has some particular point on which they pique themselves; generally something which ill deserves the pride bestowed upon it. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

his temper sparked like damp firewood Source: Internet

Her tactless remark offended me Source: Internet

A group can have a non-associative pique isotope, but it cannot have a nonassociative loop isotope. Source: Internet

As expected, Arturo Vidal came back in for Ivan Rakitic to partner Frenkie de Jong, and a suspension to Gerard Pique spelled an all-French centre back pairing of Clement Lenglet and Samuel Umtiti. Source: Internet

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