fleabite

[ flee-bahyt ]

noun

1. the bite of a flea.
2. the red spot caused by the bite of a flea.
3. any petty annoyance or irritation, as a trifling wound.

fleabite

/ ˈfliːˌbaɪt /

noun

1. the bite of a flea
2. a slight or trifling annoyance or discomfort

Word History and Origins

Origin of fleabite¹

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

Example Sentences

But punctilli are infections commonly sanguineous, as if they had arisen from a fleabite, only they remain continually.

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The water problem is still unsolved, and we get very thirsty; but thirst is a small fleabite, after all.

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A thousand cars are a fleabite compared with the daily movement in the busy season.

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Dr. Schlesien replied with an Atlas shrug under fleabite to the insensately infantile interrogation.

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But that expense was a fleabite when compared with the cost of the structural alterations that were now fairly in hand.

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