pique

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

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

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

[with oneself] To pride (oneself) on something.

To take pride in.

[with oneself] (no longer used) To excite or stimulate (oneself).

(no longer used, rare) To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.

(no longer used) To score a pique against (someone).

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

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.

(no longer used) In pique of honour: a matter, a point.

(no longer used, rare) Synonym of pica (“a disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”).

A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.

A movement in which the raised, pointed foot of the working leg is lowered so that it pricks the floor and then either rebounds upward or becomes a supporting foot.

midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky (US)

(no longer used) A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.