(transitive) To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
(transitive) To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
(reflexive, transitive) To pride (oneself) on something.
(obsolete, reflexive, transitive) To excite or stimulate (oneself).
(intransitive) To take pride in.
(intransitive) To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.

(uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
(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.
(countable, obsolete) In pique of honour: a matter, a point.

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

(obsolete) A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.
midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky (US)

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

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

piquing

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