English Dictionary

fillip

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɪlɪp/

動詞

他動詞 広義 比喩的用法 自動詞

(transitive) To strike, project, or propel with a fillip (that is, a finger released quickly after being pressed against the thumb); to flick. / (transitive, by extension) To project quickly; to snap.

日本語の意味

（指で）はじく、弾く、突き出す。 / 指先を使って、一瞬の力で素早く押し出す、または弾み出す動作をする。

With a quick motion of his thumb, he will fillip the coin into the slot, sending it clinking across the tray.

素早く親指ではじくと、彼はコインを投入口に弾き入れ、それがトレイの上をカチカチと転がった。

意味（1）

(transitive) To strike, project, or propel with a fillip (that is, a finger released quickly after being pressed against the thumb); to flick.

Mene[laus]. An odde man Lady, euery man is odde. / Creſ[ſida]. No Paris is not, for you know tis true, / That you are odde and he is euen with you. / Mene. You fillip me a'th head.

意味（2）

(transitive, by extension) To project quickly; to snap.

Yet he obſerv'd how ſtill his Iron Balls / Recoyl'd in vain againſt our Oaken Walls. / How the hard Pellets fell away as dead, / By our inchanted Timber fillipped.

意味（3）

(transitive, by extension) To strike or tap smartly.

[I]t was almost, if not quite as fine in Napoleon, hitting the Frenchmen between wind and water, filliping their chivalry on the one hand, by absolutely disbelieving that so many would go about to kill one man, and catching their admiration of courage on the other, by affecting to consider them as too few to intimidate him: …

意味（4）

(transitive, figuratively) To drive as if by a fillip (noun sense 1); to excite, stimulate, whet.

The spicy aroma filliped my appetite.

意味（5）

(transitive, intransitive) To make a fillip (noun sense 1) (with the fingers).

As they were drinking after dinner, the prince jocosely dipped his finger in a glass of wine, and fillipped it into Oglethorpe's face.

fillips （ present singular third-person ）

filliping （ participle present ）

fillipping （ archaic participle present ）

filliped （ participle past ）

filliped （ past ）

fillipped （ archaic participle past ）

fillipped （ archaic past ）