Meanings (ES + gloss)
pique • resentimiento
Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
Not so Madame de Soissons, who at once divined his intentions and watched his progress, internally resolving to render him every ill office pique could suggest, or ridicule execute…
[L]ong, costly, and bloody wars had arisen upon a point of ceremony, upon a personal pique, upon a hasty word, upon some explosion of momentary caprice; […]
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
encender • picar
To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes; / Pique her and soothe in turn, soon Passion crowns thy hopes.
His chusing to walk with her, she had learnt to understand. It was done to pique Miss Brereton.
picarse
To take pride in.
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