Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Enmity, ill feeling (uncountable); a feeling of animosity or a dispute (countable). · Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought (uncountable); or especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride (countable). · In pique of honour: a matter, a point.
To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend. · 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 excite or stimulate (oneself).
The verb is borrowed from French piquer (“to prick, sting; to anger, annoy; (reflexive) to get angry; to provoke, stimulate; (reflexive) to boast about”), from Middle French piquer, picquer (“to prick, sting; to anger, annoy; (reflexive) to get angry”), from Old French piquer (“to pierce with the tip of a sword”), from proto-Romance or Vulgar Latin *pīccare (“to sting; to strike”) or *pikkāre, and then either: * Onomatopoeic; or * from Frankish *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to knock; to peck; to pick; to prick”). If so, pique is a doublet of pick, pitch, and peck. The noun is borrowed from Middle French pique (“a quarrel; resentment”) (modern French pique), from piquer, picquer (verb); see above.
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- Borrowed-form mentionpiquerfr · to prick, sting; to anger, annoy; (reflexive) to get angry; to provoke, stimulate; (reflexive) to boast about
- Derivation mentionpiquerfrm
- Derivation mentionpiquerfro · to pierce with the tip of a sword
- Derivation mention*pikkōnągem-pro · to knock; to peck; to pick; to prick
- Doublet mentionpicken
- Doublet mentionpitch#Etymology 2en
- Doublet mentionpecken
- Borrowed-form mentionpiquefrm · a quarrel; resentment
- Cognate mentionpiquefr
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