fleabite

[ flee-bahyt ]

/ ˈfliˌbaɪt /

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noun

the bite of a flea.

the red spot caused by the bite of a flea.

any petty annoyance or irritation, as a trifling wound.

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Origin of fleabite

First recorded in 1400–50, fleabite is from late Middle English flee byte. See flea, bite

Words nearby fleabite

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

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Example sentences from the Web for fleabite

But punctilli are infections commonly sanguineous, as if they had arisen from a fleabite, only they remain continually.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton
The water problem is still unsolved, and we get very thirsty; but thirst is a small fleabite, after all.
Letters to Helen|Keith Henderson
A thousand cars are a fleabite compared with the daily movement in the busy season.
The Country's Need of Greater Railway Facilities and Terminals|James Jerome Hill
Dr. Schlesien replied with an Atlas shrug under fleabite to the insensately infantile interrogation.
One of Our Conquerors, Complete|George Meredith

But that expense was a fleabite when compared with the cost of the structural alterations that were now fairly in hand.
Mrs. Thompson|William Babington Maxwell

British Dictionary definitions for fleabite

fleabite

/ (ˈfliːˌbaɪt) /

noun

the bite of a flea

a slight or trifling annoyance or discomfort

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