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pique
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?k, IPA(key): /pi?k/
- Homophones: peak, peek, peke
- Rhymes: -i?k
Etymology 1
From Middle French pique (“a prick, sting”), from Old French pic (“a sharp point”). Doublet of pike (“long pointed weapon”). Compare Spanish picar (“to sting”).
Noun
pique (countable and uncountable, plural piques)
- A feeling of enmity; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride.
- 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety
- Men take up piques - and displeasures at others.
- 1854, Thomas De Quincey, On War
- Wars had arisen […] upon a personal pique.
- 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety
- A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little thought or consideration.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 7:
- This defiance was not a fit of pique, but a matter of principle.
- 1957, Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, Sweet Smell of Success
- You think this is a personal thing with me? Are you telling me I think of this in terms of a personal pique?
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 7:
- (obsolete) Keenly felt desire; a longing.
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- Though it have the pique, and long, / 'Tis still for something in the wrong.
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
Translations
Verb
pique (third-person singular simple present piques, present participle piquing, simple past and past participle piqued)
- (transitive) To wound the pride of; to excite to anger.
- Synonyms: sting, nettle, irritate, fret
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 11
- (reflexive) To take pride in; to pride oneself on.
- (transitive) To stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting; to excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy.
- Synonyms: excite, stimulate
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Translations
Etymology 2
From French pic.
Noun
pique (plural piques)
- (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
Verb
pique (third-person singular simple present piques, present participle piquing, simple past and past participle piqued)
- (card games, transitive) To score a pique against.
Etymology 3
From Spanish pique, from Central Quechua piki.
Noun
pique (plural piques)
- A chigger or jigger, Tunga penetrans.
Etymology 4
From French piqué, past participle of piquer (“to prick, quilt”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pi?ke?/
Noun
pique (countable and uncountable, plural piques)
- A durable ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.
References
- “pique”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- Equip., equip, pequi
French
Etymology
Deverbal of piquer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pik/
Noun
pique f (plural piques)
- pike, lance
pique m (plural piques)
- (card games) spade (as a card suit)
Descendants
- ? German: Pik n
- ? Macedonian: ??? m (pik)
- ? Serbo-Croatian: m
- Cyrillic: ????
- Latin: p?k
- ? Slovene: pík
- ? Polish: pik m
Verb
pique
- inflection of piquer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
See also
Further reading
- “pique” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Noun
pique f (plural piques)
- Alternative form of picque
Portuguese
Etymology
From Middle French picque (“a prick, sting”), from Old French pic (“a sharp point”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pi.ki/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /?pi.ke/
Noun
pique m (plural piques)
- any spear
- Synonyms: hasta, lança
- or specifically a pike
- Synonym: chuço
- hide-and-seek (game)
- Synonyms: esconde-esconde, pique-esconde
Derived terms
- a pique, ir a pique
Verb
pique
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of picar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of picar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of picar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of picar
Spanish
Etymology
From picar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pike/, [?pi.ke]
Noun
pique m (plural piques)
- (card games) spade
- downward movement
- jump, leap
- hit, fix (of drugs)
- rivalry, loggerheads
- grudge match
Derived terms
Verb
pique
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of picar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of picar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of picar.
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rouse
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?z/
- Homophone: rows (noisy arguments)
- Rhymes: -a?z
Etymology 1
From Middle English rousen, from Anglo-Norman reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body, from Latin recusare, by loss of the medial 'c.' Related to Provencal reusar.
Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.
Alternative forms
- rouze (obsolete)
Noun
rouse (plural rouses)
- An arousal.
- (military, Britain and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
Verb
rouse (third-person singular simple present rouses, present participle rousing, simple past and past participle roused)
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
- Night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther, Oxford, pp. 41-42,[2]
- As for the heat, with which he treated his other adversaries, ’twas sometimes strain’d a little too far, but in the general was extremely well fitted by the Providence of God to rowse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendome.
- 1713, Alexander Pope, Ode for Musick, London: Bernard Lintott, stanza 2, p. 3,[3]
- At Musick, Melancholy lifts her Head;
- Dull Morpheus rowzes from his Bed;
- 1979, Bernard Malamud, Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Chapter Eight, p. 284,[4]
- Dubin slept through the ringing alarm, aware of Kitty trying to rouse him and then letting him sleep.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 127,[5]
- […] their first Step in Dangers, after the common Efforts are over, was always to despair, lie down under it, and die, without rousing their Thoughts up to proper Remedies for Escape.
- 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, London: John Murray, 1900, Chapter 27,[6]
- ‘You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don’t rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.’
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin, 1992, Part Two, Chapter 5, p. 494,[7]
- […] he had grown to look upon houses as things that concerned other people, like churches, butchers’ stalls, cricket matches and football matches. They had ceased to rouse ambition or misery. He had lost the vision of the house.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, lines 284-287,[8]
- He scarce had finisht, when such murmur filld
- Th’ Assembly, as when hollow Rocks retain
- The sound of blustring winds, which all night long
- Had rous’d the Sea […]
- 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 12,[9]
- “A surgeon!” said Anne.
- He caught the word; it seemed to rouse him at once, and saying only—“True, true, a surgeon this instant,” was darting away, when Anne eagerly suggested—
- “Captain Benwick, would not it be better for Captain Benwick? […] ”
- 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, 1982, p. 108,[10]
- The words they stopped me from uttering may have been very paltry indeed, hardly words to rouse the rabble.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2, lines 284-287,[8]
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 11, p. 350,[11]
- Deformed creatures, in straunge difference,
- Some hauing heads like Harts, some like to Snakes,
- Some like wilde Bores late rouzd out of the brakes,
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 3,[12]
- Hark, the game is roused!
- 1713, Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest, London: Bernard Lintott, p. 7,[13]
- The Youth rush eager to the Sylvan War;
- Swarm o’er the Lawns, the Forest Walks surround,
- Rowze the fleet Hart, and chear the opening Hound.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- 1832, Frederick Marryat, Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service, London: James Cochrane, Volume 1, Chapter 5, p. 71,[14]
- Tom, you and the boy rouse the cable up—get about ten fathoms on deck, and bend it.
- 1832, Frederick Marryat, Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service, London: James Cochrane, Volume 1, Chapter 5, p. 71,[14]
- (obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 11, p. 157,[15]
- And ouer, all with brasen scales was armd,
- Like plated cote of steele, so couched neare,
- That nought mote perce, ne might his corse bee harmd
- With dint of swerd, nor push of pointed speare,
- Which as an Eagle, seeing pray appeare,
- His aery plumes doth rouze, full rudely dight,
- So shaked he, that horror was to heare,
- For as the clashing of an Armor bright,
- Such noyse his rouzed scales did send vnto the knight.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3,[16]
- He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
- Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
- And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 11, p. 157,[15]
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
- He roused on her for being late yet again.
Synonyms
- (to wake someone from sleep): bring round, roust, wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken
- (to be awoken from sleep): arise, get up, wake up; see also Thesaurus:wake
Derived terms
- rousing
- rousingly
- roust
Translations
Etymology 2
[Late 16th Century] From carouse, from rebracketing of the phrase “drink carouse” as “drink a rouse”.
Noun
rouse (plural rouses)
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2,[17]
- No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day
- But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,
- And the King’s rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
- Respeaking earthly thunder.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2,[17]
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- 1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Vision of Sin” in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, Volume 2, p. 219,[18]
- Fill the cup, and fill the can:
- Have a rouse before the morn:
- Every minute dies a man,
- Every minute one is born.
- 1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Vision of Sin” in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, Volume 2, p. 219,[18]
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
References
- Brachet, An etymological dictionary of the French language
Anagrams
- Euros, Suero, euros, roués, suero
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