flea-bitten

[ flee-bit-n ]

/ ˈfliˌbɪt n /

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adjective

bitten by a flea or fleas.

infested with fleas.

shabby; dilapidated; wretched.

(of a horse) having a light-colored coat with small, dark spots or streaks.

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Origin of flea-bitten

First recorded in 1560–70

Words nearby flea-bitten

flea, fleabag, fleabane, flea beetle, fleabite, flea-bitten, flea collar, flea-flicker, fleam, flea market, fleapit

How to use flea-bitten in a sentence

But the title of Best Death definitely belongs to Bob Stookey, who got bitten by a zombie then captured by cannibals.
The Red Viper, Zoe Barnes, and the Best Fictional Deaths of 2014|Melissa Leon|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And it all began with a young model rooting through Paris flea markets to find something that made her feel good.
Tatiana Sorokko Is the Queen of Vintage Couture|Anthony Haden-Guest|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I grew up in New York and there was a Caldor that had a Sunday flea market.
The TV Superhero Guru Behind ‘The Flash’|Jason Lynch|October 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Six months after he arrived in Paris, he found another high-wheeled bicycle in a flea market and bought that too.
Pryor Dodge's Two-Wheeled Obsession Is Now a Museum of Bike History|Anthony Haden-Guest|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, from an infected little mammal—usually a rat—can hop from the dying rat onto a human and bite it.
It’s Not Time to Worry About China’s Plague Just Yet|Kent Sepkowitz|July 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Squinty squatted down beside one, and, with his strong teeth, he soon had bitten a hole in the cloth.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
When a malarious person is bitten by a mosquito, the gametes are taken with the blood into its stomach.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
His neck was torn open, bitten right through to the windpipe, the blood still dripping from it into a dark pool on the carpet.
Uncanny Tales|Various
On feeling the bite of the flea, thrust the part bitten immediately into boiling water.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
He had nearly bitten his swollen tongue in two falling over an unseen peat-cutting, and blood-flecked foam gathered on his lips.
Uncanny Tales|Various

British Dictionary definitions for flea-bitten

flea-bitten

adjective

bitten by or infested with fleas

informal shabby or decrepit; mean

(of the coat of a horse) having reddish-brown spots on a lighter background

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