fillips

[US]/'fɪlɪp/
[UK]/'fɪlɪp/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. isang stimulus; isang kiskis ng daliri
vt. kumiskis ng daliri
vi. kumiskis ng daliri

Example Sentences

give sb. a fillip on the shoulder

bigyan ng bahagyang katok sa balikat

fillip away the dust on one's clothes

alisin ang alikabok sa damit gamit ang bahagyang katok

the halving of car tax would provide a fillip to sales.

Ang paghahati ng buwis sa sasakyan ay magbibigay ng dagdag na sigla sa mga benta.

the Prince, by a fillip, made some of the wine fly in Oglethorpe's face.

Sa pamamagitan ng isang bahagyang katok, ang Prinsipe ay naging sanhi ng paglipad ng ilang alak sa mukha ni Oglethorpe.

he filliped him over the nose.

Bahagyang katok niya ito sa ilong.

pour, that the draught may fillip my remembrance.

Ibuhos, upang ang pag-inom ay magpaalala sa akin.

Or tears drop when they fillip your son's pennis?

O, luluha ba kapag sila ay bahagyang katok sa ari ng iyong anak?

the Green bandwagon provided a fillip for many companies tackling environmental problems.

Nagbigay ang Green bandwagon ng dagdag-sigla sa maraming kumpanya na tumutugon sa mga problemang pangkapaligiran.

our aforesaid merchant filliped a nut sharply against his bullying giant.

Pinagaspangan ng aming nabanggit na negosyante ang isang mani nang malakas laban sa kanyang mapang-bully na higante.

Real-world Examples

For the finale, the girl's beauty gave their filthy hearts a fillip.

Source: Pan Pan

Cheaper oil might give it a bit of a fillip.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

Villon fetched him a fillip on the nose, which turned his mirth into an attack of coughing.

Source: The New Arabian Nights (Part Two)

Granted, many consumer-facing firms benefited from the fillip to households that came from Mr Biden's $1.9trn American Rescue Plan in March 2021.

Source: Economist Business

The prospect of an elusive " soft landing" has combined with hype over the productivity-boosting promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to give investors a fillip.

Source: Economist Business

The fillip to Lockheed's shares owed more to its promise to return a slug of cash to shareholders than to any gung-ho predictions about orders.

Source: Economist Business

A natural fillip followed, the beetle went floundering into the aisle and lit on its back, and the hurt finger went into the boy's mouth.

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

And it was this fillip that must have given the owner of our villa the confidence to show us Christ looking out at us, full face, unequivocally a man of power.

Source: BBC documentary "A Hundred Treasures Talk About the Changes of Time"

There are days wi' you, as wi' other folk, I suppose, when yo' get up and go through th' hours, just longing for a bit of a change — a bit of a fillip, as it were.

Source: The South and the North (Part 1)

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