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fillip 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈfiləp/,
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fillips, plural;
  1. Propel (a small object) with a flick of the finger
    • - our aforesaid merchant filliped a nut sharply against his bullying giant
  2. Strike (someone or something) slightly and smartly
    • - he filliped him over the nose
  3. Stimulate or urge (someone or something)
    • - pour, that the draught may fillip my remembrance
Noun
  1. Something that acts as a stimulus or boost to an activity
    • - the halving of the automobile tax would provide a fillip to sales
  2. A movement made by bending the last joint of a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing it; a flick of the finger
    • - the Prince, by a fillip, made some of the wine fly in Oglethorpe's face
  3. A slight smart stroke or tap given in such a way
    • - she began to give him dainty fillips on the nose with a soft forepaw
  1. bonus: anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip"
  2. Fillip is a Vancouver-based contemporary art publishing organization formed in 2004. It publishes a magazine as well as books of critical writing. ...
  3. A flick; the act of releasing the index finger from the hold of a thumb with a snap; Something that excites or stimulates; To strike or project with the nail of a finger snapped from the end of the thumb; flick; To tap or strike smartly; To make a fillip; drive by or as by a fillip; ...
  4. capirotazo; papirotazo; estímulo; aguijón; dar un papirotazo; estimular