piqué

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.

   “The Dev'l was piqu'd, ſuch ſaintſhip to behold, / And long'd to tempt him like good Job of old: / But Satan now is wiſer than of yore, / And tempts by making rich, not making poor.”

2. fiil To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).

   “I believe this will pique your interest.”

3. fiil To pride (oneself) on something.

   “[G]ood Nature may be ſetled in them [children] into a Habit, and they may take pleaſure and pique themſelves in being kind, liberal, and civil to others.”

4. fiil To excite or stimulate (oneself).
5. fiil To take pride in.
6. fiil To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.

   “Piqu'd by Protogenes's Fame, / From Co to Rhodes, Apelles came; / To ſee a Rival and a Friend, / Prepar'd to Cenſure, or Commend, […]”

7. fiil To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.

   “For I obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill Piquing at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the Heron and Jerfalcon do.”

8. isim Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.

   “Men take up piques and diſpleaſures at others, and then every opinion of the diſliked perſon muſt partake of his fate, and be engaged in the quarrel: […]”

9. isim 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.

   “Tuſh! tuſh! you take the grave peake uppon you too much: who would think you could ſo eaſily ſhake off your olde friendes?”

10. isim In pique of honour: a matter, a point.

    “Add long preſcription of eſtabliſh'd laws, / And picque of honour to maintain a cauſe, / And ſhame of change, and fear of future ill, / And Zeal, the blind conductor of the will; […]”

11. isim In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.

    “Flip[panta]. Hark thee, Braſs, the Game's in our hands, if we can but play the Cards. / Br[ass]. Pique and Repique, you Jade you: If the Wives will fall into a good Intelligence.”

12. fiil To score a pique against (someone).

    “My villainous old luck ſtill follovvs me in gaming, I never throvv the Dice out of my hand, but my Gold goes after 'em: if I go to Picquet, though it be but vvith a Novice in't, he vvill picque and repicque, and Capot me tvventy times together: […]”

13. isim A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.
14. isim midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky (US)
15. isim Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”).

    “Pique and linen also accented several coats and oftentimes were both detachable and formed an overcollar covering a collar made from the coat fabric.”

16. isim Synonym of pica (“a disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”).

    “The World is nat'rally averse / To all the truth it sees or hears, / But swallows Non-sense and a Lie / With greediness and gluttony; / And though it have the Pique, and long, / 'Tis still for something in the wrong: […]”

17. isim A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.

    “I found three piqué shirts, each a shade lighter than the one before it, and each so fine and closely woven it shone like satin.”

18. isim A movement in which the raised, pointed foot of the working leg is lowered so that it pricks the floor and then either rebounds upward or becomes a supporting foot.