piquant
Meaning
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- spiky, spiny
- piquant, pungent, spicy-hot (of food)
- cold; ice-cold
- scathing (of humor, a joke, etc.)
- attractive
Concepts
poignant
trenchant
witty
B party
biting words
Synonyms
qui pique
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pi.kɑ̃/
Etymology
Present participle of piquer.
New
piquer
- to prick; to sting
- to sting
- to put down, euthanise (an animal)
- (colloquial) to nick, pinch, steal
- to pride oneself on; to like to think that one can do
- to stitch together
- to dive, descend rapidly (of birds or planes)
- to dash (towards something)
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