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Crossword-Solution: PIQUE 5 letters, 210 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
Pique n. A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress
goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
Pique n. The jigger. See Jigger.
Pique n. A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a
social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded
pride; stinging vexation.
Pique n. Keenly felt desire; a longing.
Pique n. In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in
hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
Pique v. t. To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate;
to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
Pique v. t. To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to
stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.
Pique v. t. To pride or value; -- used reflexively.
Pique v. i. To cause annoyance or irritation.

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Word Anagrams
PIQUE anagram EQUIP, EUQIP

We have 210 clues for the answer “PIQUE”

Clue Answers
"This might ___ your interest . . ." 1 answer
Arouse anger in 1 answer
Arouse one's interest 1 answer
Arouse resentment in 1 answer
Arouse the interest of. 1 answer
Arouse, as curiosity 1 answer
Arouse, as intrigue 1 answer
Arouse, as ire 1 answer
Arouse, as one's interest 1 answer
Arouse, like curiosity 1 answer
Arouse, like interest 1 answer
BAFFLED curiosity 1 answer
BRITISH fabrics 1 answer
BRITISH weft fabrics 1 answer
Ballet step on tiptoe without bending the knee 1 answer
Bit of a snit 1 answer
Disgruntled feeling 1 answer
Emotion of umbrage 1 answer
Engage, as interests 1 answer
Excite or irritate 1 answer
Excite, as curiosity 1 answer
Excite, as interest 1 answer
Excite, as interest or curiosity 1 answer
FEELING of baffled curiosity 1 answer
Feeling felt in fits 1 answer
Feeling of umbrage 1 answer
Feeling of wounded pride 1 answer
Felt resentment 1 answer
Fit condition 1 answer
Fit of ___ (annoyed state) 1 answer
Fit of ___: irritated state 1 answer
Fit of resentment 1 answer
Get into a red state 1 answer
Homophone of "peek" 1 answer
Incite, as curiosity 1 answer
Inspire resentment in 1 answer
Irritate [solve the celeb puzzle series at avxwords.com] 1 answer
It comes in fits 1 answer
Offend someone by an unintended insult 1 answer
Peeved feeling 1 answer
Provoke interest 1 answer
Provoke resentfully 1 answer
Provoke, as curiosity 1 answer
Provoke, as interest 1 answer
Raise, as curiosity 1 answer
Raise, as interest 1 answer
Raise, as one's interest 1 answer
Ruffle the pride of. 1 answer
Ruffled pride 1 answer
SHIRT-front fabric 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PIQUE (5)

People used to turn their heads to look at it, poor girl!” “Pooh! that’s nothing—that’s nothing!” she exclaimed, in incipient accents of pique.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The occasion of this interruption we can only explain by resuming the adventures of another set of our characters; for, like old Ariosto, we do not pique ourselves upon continuing uniformly to keep company with any one personage of our drama.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
During his present short stay, Emma had barely seen him; but just enough to feel that the first meeting was over, and to give her the impression of his not being improved by the mixture of pique and pretension, now spread over his air.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
Collectively they were for taking this offered arm; the single one of pique determined her to punish Stephen by refusing.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Nay, Love, you did give all I asked: it must be understood that his wife has replied with pique, to what he said in the two preceding lines.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008

Quotes with PIQUE (3)

You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.
T.D. McKinney Kissing Sherlock Holmes
Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any co…
A. S. Byatt Possession
Leave this touching and clawing. Let him be to me a spirit. A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from him, I want, but not news nor pottage. I can get politics, and chat, and neighborly conveniences from cheaper companions. Should not the society of my friend be to me poetic, pure, universal, and great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with yonder bar of cloud that sleeps on the horizon, or that clump of waving grass that divides t…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 192 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).