Pique is valid Scrabble Word

Is pique a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is pique valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for PIQUE in dictionary:

VERB:

to arouse anger or resentment
arouse (interest or curiosity)
feel irritated or resentful
pride oneself
To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.
To pride or value; -- used reflexively.
To cause annoyance or irritation.
cause to feel resentment or indignation
hurt the pride of

score a pique against (one's opponent).

NOUN:

feeling of hurt pride, baffled curiosity, or resentment
A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
The jigger. See Jigger.
A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.
Keenly felt desire; a longing.
In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
tightly woven fabric with raised cords
a sudden outburst of anger
a feeling of irritation or resentment resulting from a slight, especially to one's pride
(in piquet) the scoring of 30 points on declarations and play before one's opponent scores anything.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to arouse anger or resentment in

Words related to PIQUE

piqued18 piques17 piquing19

Words that contain PIQUE

piqued18 piques17 piquet17 piquets18 repique18 piqueted20 repiqued20 repiques19 demipique23 piqueting21 demipiques24

How to use PIQUE in a sentence

Denys out of pique, since his own charming daughter would have none of him.
I certainly do not speak on this point from any pique or aversion towards the place of my education.
I have no objection to keeping up the conversation, but you pique my curiosity as to how it is all going to come out.
After such a message as this, why had she not let him see her? Why had she been angry with Keswick? Was that pique? And then a dark thought crossed his mind.
She would carefully hide all traces of pique or annoyance.
They honor human nature not the less because the writer knows how to manage it, to raise a smile at its absurdities, to rally, pique, and guide it into health and good-humor.
This step, taken in a moment of restless pique, was ever after regretted by Cellini, who looked back with yearning from Florence to the generosity of Francis.
But it was very natural that his indifference should pique her vanity.
Ffinch-Brown swooped down upon the Robson household and gave vent to her pique.
That great defying eye, that scornful beauty of his mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.

It was the only weapon she permitted herself, as she would not condescend to any visible sign of jealousy or pique.
Pique, very likely, had brought about this ill-starred match with Chatelet.
What Shelby did not divine was the incentive force of pique.
The dog and man at first were friends, But when a pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
A foolish habit, formed in pique, of affecting not to hear, adhered to me long before we were acquainted.
She experienced only a faintly poignant sense of disappointment, of indeterminate pique, as she realized that she was no longer a free agent.
She knew the secret discontent of her royal mistress, and the pique she felt against Buckingham, who, she also knew, sought the ruin of the house of Neville.
Difficult to announce her engagement just then! The world would say that she had married out of imitation, and her sister would think that she had married out of pique.
And no one of us, except out of revenge or pique, would publicly criticize or condemn a man influential enough to do us harm.
Then, prompted by pique and determination to find ointment for her wounded vanity, she suddenly opened her batteries upon Reinaldo.
It began to pique him that he had already been forced to abandon more than one impression in regard to her character.
Perhaps my grandfather planted old plate and government bonds just to pique the curiosity of his heirs, successors and assigns.
You see, dear lady, personal pride and pique play no part in this game.
But Clodius, who sat in the centre table, so as to observe well the countenance of Julia, guessed her pique, and resolved to profit by it.
Whatever personal pique he may have felt at losing the nomination, he was thoroughly loyal to his party.
He endeavoured to pique her jealousy as a monarch, by suggesting that the enterprise might fall into the hands of other princes.

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