fillip

give sb. a fillip on the shoulder

fillip away the dust on one's clothes

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

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

he filliped him over the nose.

pour, that the draught may fillip my remembrance.

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

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

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

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

Cheaper oil might give it a bit of a fillip.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.