Citations:pique

Noun

 * 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, page 7:
 * This defiance was not a fit of pique, but a matter of principle.

Verb

 * 1910, Jean Wilde Clark, A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery, "Weddings":
 * (the wedding card) piques the interest of every woman, married or single, into whose hands it chances on its travels, and leaves a flutter of delightful expectancy in its wake.