Fillip

Definition: Fillip

Fillip

Noun

1. Anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fillip" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Synonym: Fillip

Excitation

Stimulate; exsuscitate; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon; (incite); hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.

Impulse

Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe.

Motive

Incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus, rowel, provocative, whet, dram.

Regression

Verb: propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.

Crosswords: Fillip

Then, with a fillip, he brushed a speck of dust from his coatsleeve.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "fillip": fillip smb.'s memory ♦ give a fillip ♦ give a fillip to. Additional references.

Albanian

stimulues (dope, stimulant), stimuloj (incite, prod, stimulate, urge), nxitës (abetter, abettor, aphrodisiac, cordial, encouraging, excitant, fire brand, fomenter, hortative, hortatory, impellent, incendiary, incentive, inciting, inflammatory, instigator, lively, mainspring, piquant, poignant, promoter, provocative, sexy, sponsor, stimulant, stimulating, warmonger), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), çokitje me gisht, çokitje (percussion), çokas me gisht. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقف (flip), ‏حلية ثانوية, ‏عامل (active, agent, cooperative, employee, engine, hand, industrious, ingredient, laborer, labourer, process, use, working, workman), ‏ضربة باليد, ‏إضافة ضئيلة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

чуквам леко с пръст, тласък (impetus, impulse, jerk, propulsion, pulse, push, shock, shove, thrust, urge), тласкам (dash, drive, guide, hustle, impact, impel, jerk, propel, push, thrust), активизирам (activate, detonate, move, push), леко чукване с пръст, подтиквам (actuate, goad, help forward, hypo, impel, incite, inspire, invigorate, invite, move, prod, prompt, provoke, resolve, spur, stir up, urge on), подтик (drive, goad, hypo, impulse, incentive, inducement, prompting, propulsion, push, relish, sanction, spur, stimulus, urge, whet), дреболия (bagatelle, detail, doit, fiddlestick, knack, non essential, nothing, nothingness, pin head, playgame, tittle, toy, trick, trifle, twopence). (various references)

Czech

udeřit (bang, hit, impinge, knock, punch, strike, swipe). (various references)

French

pichenette, donner une pichenette, coup par la main, coup de fouet. (various references)

German

aufmunterung (cheer, cheering up, encouragement, gingering up, livening up), antrieb (access, account, actuation, actuator, drive, drive head, drive line, driver, driving gear, driving mechanism, impellent, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitement, kind of drive, motive, movement, prime mover, prompting, propulsion, reason, spur, system of drive, transmission), ansporn (goad, incentive, incitement, inducement, prod, spur, stimulant, stimulation). (various references)

Greek 

κτυπώ με το δάκτυλο, υπενθύμιση (reminder), υπενθυμίζω (prompt, remind, remind about), θίγω (derogate from, hand, slight, touch on). (various references)

Hebrew 

תמריץ (encouragement, impetus, incentive, inducement, spur, stimulant). (various references)

Hungarian

fricska (flick, flip, rap), ösztönzés (fomentation, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement, instigation, motivation, prompting, spur, stimulation, urge). (various references)

Italian

stimolo (excitation, goad, incitement, inducement, motivation, stimulant, stimulus, urge), buffetto (flick). (various references)

Manx

snig (catch, flick, flip, latch). (various references)

Pig Latin

illipfay

Portuguese

posto de gasolina (gas stove, service station), piparote (rap), piparotar, insignificância (bagatelle, cuss, dab, insignificancy, insignificant, kickshaw, littleness, minuteness, non essential, nonentity, nothingness, pittance, rap, trifle, triviality), incentivo (combustible, encouragement, fuel, goad, inception, incivility, persuasive, spur, stimulus), estímulo (actuation, animation, excitation, fond, fuel, impulse, incentive, incitement, inducement, kick, motivations, persuasive, pickpocket, prod, spur, stimulant, stimulus), bagatela (bagatelle, dab, doited, falderal, fangless, gewgaw, inch, kickshaw, knick knack, Nick nack, nothing, nothing doing, ought, picayune, pinion, rap, rot, rubbish, straw, toy, trifle, trinket). (various references)

Romanian

fleac (a piece of cake, bauble, bunkum, chaff, doit, flapdoodle, flea-bite, flummery, fribble, kickshaw, knick knack, nil, nothing, nothingness, peppercorn, pin head, push over, rot, rubbish, rubble, small beer, stiver, tittle tattle, trash, trifle, trinket), stimulent (cordial, drive, impetus, impulse, incentive, pick me up, spur, stimulant, stimulus, whet), stimula (abet, activate, actuate, brace, cheer, develop, dynamize, elate, Energize, enliven, excite, fire, gladden, goad, hop, incite, inspire, irritate, lash, motive, needle, pander to, pep, pep up, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, push, quicken, rouse, sharpen, spur, stimulate, stir up, tickle, urge, whet), nimic (anything, bauble, flea-bite, morsel, naught, negation, nil, nonentity, nothing, nothingness, nought, stiver, trifle), lucru fãrã valoare (chaff, fox-fire, rap, triviality), impuls (drive, gadfly, impetus, impulse, impulsion, momentum, motion, spur, stimulus, swing, urge), imbold (goad, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive), da un bobârnac (flip), bobârnac (flick, flip), ajuta (abet, accomodate, advantage, aid, answer, assist, avail, back up, befriend, benefit, carry, carry through, comfort, encourage, help, minister to, promote, prop, push, relieve, second, serve, succor, succour, support, sustain). (various references)

Russian 

щелчок, щелкнуть, возбудитель (exciter, provocative, stirrer-up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zvrčka (doohickey, flick), podstrek (lift, stimulant, stimulus), podsticaj (abetment, goad, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, prod, spur, stimulus, whet), kucnuti prstom, kuckanje prstom. (various references)

Spanish

estímulo (boost, booster, encouragement, excitation, goad, impulse, incentive, inducement, jog, lift, spur, stimulation, stimulus). (various references)

Swedish

uppmuntran (countenance, encouragement, fomentation, incentive, reassurance), uppmuntra (countenance, embolden, encourage, exhilarate, exhort, Favor, favour, foment, hearten, pander, promote, reassure, spirit up), stimulera (Energize, excite, invigorate, key up, stimulate, to, whet), stimulans (excitant, kick, stimulation, stimulus), sporre (goad, incentive, inducement, skid, sledge runner, spur), sporra (goad, impel, incite, spur, work up), knäppa bort, knäppa (buckle, button, click, do up, fasten, flick, flip, knock off, plug, pot, snap, thrum, twang, zap), knäpp (barmy, bent, click, cracked, dippy, flick, flip, kinky, kookie, kooky, screwy, snap, wacky). (various references)

Turkish

fiske vurmak (flick, flip), fiske (flick, flip), teşvik etmek (abet, cheer, cheer on, countenance, draw, egg, egg on, embolden, encourage, Foster, ginger, ginger up, give a fillip to, give countenance to, goad, goad on, incite, induce, inspirit, instigate, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, lend wings to, prod, prompt, put a premium on, put smb. on his mettle, revitalize, set on, sharpen, spark, spoonfeed, spur, spur smb. on, stimulate, stir up, tickle up, urge), harekete geçirmek (activate, actuate, arouse, deploy, edge on, Energize, give a fillip to, impel, prompt, rally, set going, set in motion, spark, whack up), hafif darbe, özendirici şey. (various references)

Ukranian 

клацання (chatter, clabber, clang, click, smack), поштовх (concussion, hit, hitch, impetus, impulse, jog, joggle, kick, poke, propulsion, push, put, shake, shock, thrust, toss), дрібниця (bagatelle, barley-straw, minim, non essential, nonsense, nothing, nothingism, nought, trifle, triviality, whim-wham). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật không đáng kể (picayune, pip-squeak), vật kích thích chuyện nhỏ mọn, cái búng. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fillip": filliped, filliping, fillips. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fillip" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fallic, fallid, figlia, Figlio, fili, filig, filii, filio, filip, Filipa, Filipo, Filipov, Filiz, fillal, filli, fillin, Fillipo, fillit, Fillou, fillup, Fullup, fylgia. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fill, flip, pili, pill.

-3 letters: fil, ill, lip.

-4 letters: if, li, pi.

+1 letter: fillips.

+2 letters: filliped.

+3 letters: filliping, pitifully.

+4 letters: pitifuller.

+5 letters: pacifically, pitifullest.

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