To provoke an unwanted action.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ask for, it.
To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
To score a pique against (someone).
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 take pride in.
Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) 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; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.