What is the meaning of Pique?

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

   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 pride (oneself) on something.

   To excite or stimulate (oneself).

   1. To take pride in.
   2. To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
   3. To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.

   To take pride in.

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

   To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.

   Enmity, ill feeling; 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; especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.

   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.

   To score a pique against (someone).

   A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.

   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”)

   pike, lance

   spade

   inflection of piquer:

   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

   first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

   second-person singular imperative

   inflection of picar:

   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

   first/third-person singular present subjunctive

   third-person singular imperative

   Alternative form of picque

   any spear

   or specifically a pike

   hide-and-seek

   tantrum

   tart or acid flavor

   inflection of picar:

   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

   first/third-person singular present subjunctive

   third-person singular imperative

   spade

   downward movement

   jump, leap

   hit, fix

   rivalry, loggerheads

   friction, confrontation

   grudge match

   sprint

   inflection of picar:

   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

   first/third-person singular present subjunctive

   third-person singular imperative

   Source: wiktionary.org