homophone, /'hɑmə,fon/

[trochee]

peak: noun: the tip of a mountain
peek: noun: short look; verb: to take a short look
pique: noun: anger, frustration, irritation; verb, to stimulate, especially as in to pique s.o.'s interest, probably only distantly related to the nominal sense; (noun: apparently also a fabric and a way of inlaying tortoiseshell, though they may be pronounced /pike/ not /pik/, disqualifying them as homophones).

[update from marnanel:]
Peke: noun, slangy: a small yappy dog (from Pekinese)
[update from _dkg_:]
peek: verb, computer jargon: to read the value of a memory location directly

Comments

[trochee.livejournal.com]

heh, even though I know its origin is French, I always associate pique with Spanish picante (itchy, pokey) and picador, the spearman assistant in a bullfight.

So my mental image for pique is somebody with a small spear.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Like a pikeman?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

oo, yes! I'd forgotten the cognate pike.

Ignore the sleep-induced insanity...

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

picador... personally, i'm a bigger fan of the slightly larger, more versatile micrador. When serving a large party, i just go all out and use a reguluar unidor.