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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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pique

UK /piːk/ · US /pik/ verb, noun

Forms piques piquing piqued

  1. verb To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
  2. verb 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. verb (reflexive) To pride (oneself) on something.
  4. verb (reflexive, obsolete) To excite or stimulate (oneself).
  5. verb To take pride in.
  6. verb To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
  7. verb (obsolete, rare) To express jealousy, resentment, etc. at someone; to become angry or annoyed.
  8. noun (uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
  9. noun (uncountable) 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.
  10. noun (countable, obsolete) In pique of honour: a matter, a point.
  11. noun (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
  12. verb (ambitransitive, card games, archaic or obsolete) To score a pique against (someone).
  13. noun (obsolete) A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.
  14. noun midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky (US)
  15. noun (pathology, obsolete, rare) Synonym of pica (“a disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”).
  16. noun (sewing) A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.
  17. noun (ballet, countable) 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.

Synonyms

fret nettle sting aggravate annoy rankle ruffle burn someone's ass antagonize bother disgruntle botherate bug get grate burn up bedevil acerbate cheese off devil temper irritation offend

Etymology

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:
* 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.

The noun is borrowed from French pic, Middle French pic (“pique in the game of piquet; pike (tool)”), picq (“game of piquet”), from Vulgar Latin *pīccus (“sharp point, peak; pike, spike”), possibly from Frankish *pikk, *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pikjaz, *pīkaz (“sharp point, peak; pickaxe; pike”); further etymology unknown. Doublet of pike.
The verb is either derived from the noun (though the latter is attested in print later), or borrowed from French pic.

Borrowed from Spanish pique, from Central Quechua piki.

A variant of pica, or from its etymon Late Latin pica (“disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances”), from Latin pīca (“jay; magpie”) (from the idea that magpies will eat almost anything), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“magpie; woodpecker”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, --used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
  2. noun The jigger. See Jigger.
  3. noun A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.
  4. noun Keenly felt desire; a longing.

Etymology [F., p.p. of piquer to prick.]

Etymology [F., fr. piquer. See Pike.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “pique”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details