piquant
pronunciation
How to pronounce piquant in British English:
UK [ˈpi:kənt]
How to pronounce piquant in American English:
US [ˈpikənt, -ˌkɑnt, piˈkɑnt]
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- Adjective:
- having an agreeably pungent taste
- engagingly stimulating or provocative
- attracting or delighting
Word Origin
- piquant (adj.)
- 1520s, from Middle French piquant "pricking, stimulating, irritating," present participle of piquer "to prick, sting, nettle" (see pike (n.2)).
Example
- 1. Official foam is a very piquant child especially .
- 2. A piquant ghost is dissatisfactory to this .
- 3. It is quite piquant , also keep a little while , just like this parrot .
- 4. Piquant but not audacious , the free-living attitude is concealed behind by the unbending and insouciance .
- 5. He ever told a student : when one 's early years teachs music , a few piquant students call even 8 main scale forbid , somebody is sung " see wintersweet qing laxue alone " .