This week's theme
Onomatopoeic words

This week's words
bombilate
fanfaron
cachinnate
fillip
brouhaha

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(FIL-ip)

MEANING:

noun: 1. A stimulus. 2. A snap made by pressing a fingertip against the thumb and suddenly releasing it.
verb tr.: 1. To stimulate or to incite to action. 2. To make a snap by a fingertip against the thumb.

ETYMOLOGY:

Apparently of onomatopoeic origin. Earliest documented use: 1530.

USAGE:

"Intel splashed out $884 million ... to give its efforts in the embedded-chip market a fillip."
Space Invaders; The Economist (London, UK); Jan 7, 2012.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: