fillip

Speech parts

1. fillip - Noun

2. fillip - Verb

Meaning

To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger.

To snap; to project quickly.

A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.

Something serving to rouse or excite.

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Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start. Shana Alexander

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion beyond this, he has no further need of God. Blaise Pascal

his approval was an added fillip Source: Internet

Her prose is glorious — concrete, restrained, with the occasional, always justified, lyrical fillip — and her insight pitiless. Source: Internet

Fuelling the country’s vision for a cashless economy, the Union Budget uncovered numerous provisions that are poised to fillip the cause of digital payments in the country. Source: Internet

It has certainly met most of our expectations in terms of providing fillip to the economy while maintaining fiscal prudence. Source: Internet

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