Grudge vs Pique - What's the difference?
grudge | pique | Synonyms |
(countable) Deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone.
* 1607 , Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ?ixt , ACTVS. 5, SCÆ. 1:
* 1879 , Henry James, The American , Rinehart, page 288:
* 2001 , H. Rider Haggard, All Adventure: Child of Storm/a Tale of Three Lions , Essential Library (xLibris), page 274:
(obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:
To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
* 1608 , Henrie Gosson, The Woefull and Lamentable wast and spoile done by a suddaine Fire in S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, on Munday the tenth of Aprill. 1608. , reprinted by F. Pawsey, Old Butter Market, Ipswich, 1845, page 6:
* 1841 , Edmund Burke, The Annual Register , Rivingtons, page 430:
* 1869 , Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment , Fields, Osgood, & Co., p. 62 [http://books.google.com/books?id=dk8IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62#v=onepage&f=false]:
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
* 1953 , , Viking Press, 1953, chapter 3:
(obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To feel compunction or grief.
A feeling of enmity between two entities; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride.
* Dr. H. More
* De Quincey
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:
* Sweet Smell of Success (1957) screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, starring Burt Lancaster as J.J. Hunsecker who says:
(obsolete) Keenly felt desire; a longing.
* Hudibras
To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to excite to anger.
* 1913 ,
* Byron
(reflexive) To take pride in; to pride oneself on.
* John Locke
To excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting.
In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
A durable ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.
Grudge is a synonym of pique.
As nouns the difference between grudge and pique
is that grudge is (countable) deep-seated animosity or ill-feeling about something or someone while pique is a kind of ribbed or corded fabric.As a verb grudge
is (obsolete) to grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.grudge
English
Noun
(en noun)- to hold a grudge against someone
- to have a grudge against someone
- to bear a grudge against someone
- Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it
- I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,
- He ?hall haue two ?teele bullets ?trongly charg’d
- I have never mentioned it to a human creature ; I have kept my grudge' to myself. I daresay I have been wicked, but my ' grudge has grown old with me.
- It is towards Saduko that he bears a grudge , for you know, my father, one should never pull a drowning man out of the stream — which is what Saduko did, for had it not been for his treachery, Cetewayo would have sunk beneath the water of Death — especially if it is only to spite a woman who hates him.
Derived terms
* hold a grudge * have a grudge * bear a grudgeVerb
(grudg)- And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].
- Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations :
- If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist?
- Of course, his interest in the war and in the regiment was unbounded; he did not take to drill with especial readiness, but he was insatiable of it, and grudged every moment of relaxation.
- Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
- I've never seen such people for borrowing and lending; there was dough changing hands in all directions, and nobody grudged anyone.
- Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!
- (Bishop Fisher)
Derived terms
* grudginglyReferences
Anagrams
*pique
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
- Men take up piques and displeasures.
- Wars had arisen upon a personal pique .
- This defiance was not a fit of pique , but a matter of principle.
- You think this is a personal thing with me? Are you telling me I think of this in terms of a personal pique ?
- Though it have the pique , and long, / 'Tis still for something in the wrong.
Verb
(piqu)- She treated him indulgently, as if he were a child. He thought he did not mind. But deep below the surface it piqued him.
- Pique her and soothe in turn.
- Men pique themselves upon their skill.
- I believe this will pique your interest.
- (Prior)