pique vs upset

pique

verb
  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

upset

verb
  • To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • To be upset or knocked over. 

  • To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends. 

  • To tip or overturn (something). 

  • To defeat unexpectedly. 

  • To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. 

  • To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something). 

noun
  • An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U. 

  • The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control. 

  • An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. 

  • An overturn. 

  • Disturbance or disruption. 

  • An upset stomach. 

adj
  • Angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit. 

How often have the words pique and upset occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )