piquant

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe. archaic
  2. Stimulating to the senses; engaging; charming.
    — Their husbands […] leave home to seek for more agreeable, may I be allowed to use a significant French word, piquant society […]
  3. Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy.
    — Pork Chops with Apple and Port These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
  4. Producing a burning sensation due to the presence of chilies or similar spices; spicy, hot.

词形变化

more piquant comparative most piquant superlative piquante alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
piquancy piquantly piquantness unpiquant

词源

Borrowed from Middle French piquant (“pricking, stimulating, irritating”), present participle of piquer, possibly from Old French pikier (“to prick, sting, nettle”). Doublet of picong. Related to pike.
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