English Dictionary

fillip

/ˈfɪlɪp/

noun

(archaic) The action of holding the tip of a finger against the thumb and then releasing it with a snap; a flick. / A sharp strike or tap made using this action, or (by extension) by other means.

I need a fillip to boost my motivation.

意味（1）

(archaic) The action of holding the tip of a finger against the thumb and then releasing it with a snap; a flick.

And let him ſuppoſe, that if a Man in the beginning of the World, or four or five hundred Years ago, had laid a little round Marble upon a Table, and to put the ſame in Motion, had given it a Fillip with his Finger; the ſaid Marble, according to the abovemention'd Law of Nature, would (if no other Force had oppos'd its Motion) have moved to this very Minute with the ſame Velocity in a Right-Line, and without ceaſing, would have continued to run in the ſame Line ſuch a Length, as no Man could determine the end of.

意味（2）

A sharp strike or tap made using this action, or (by extension) by other means.

The blasphemy done to a mortal man is punished with the sword, and shall the blasphemy done to God escape think you with a fillip in the forehead, or with the knock of a little wooden betel, as it is begun to be punished in certain men's houses now of late? Nay, verily. It is no fillip matter except we will admit such a fillip as shall fillip them down into the bottom of hell-fire. God is no puppet, nor a babe. It is not a fillip that can wipe away the blasphemy of his most blessed name, before his high throne and glorious majesty.

意味（3）

(by extension) Something unimportant, a trifle; also, the brief time it takes to flick one's finger (see noun sense 1); a jiffy.

Eat, drink and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.

意味（4）

(by extension) Something that excites or stimulates.

This measure gave a fillip to the housing market.