Crossword-Solution: PIQUE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PIQUE | anagram | EQUIP, EUQIP |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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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.
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.
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.
Collectively they were for taking this offered arm; the single one of pique determined her to punish Stephen by refusing.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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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).