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.
To annoy, irritate.
To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
To twist, to weave.
To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.