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flea-ridden

flea-ridden adjective: infested with fleas.

Adjective

flea-ridden (comparative more flea-ridden, superlative most flea-ridden)

  1. Infested with fleas.
    • Two or three times a week a sort of Italian eil-wagen, a funereal and tumble-down, flea-ridden coach, with windows boarded up so high that, when seated, you cannot see out of them, and closed hermetically, after Italian fashion, shambles along at jog-trot pace between the two towns, and takes a...1861, Edward Dicey, chapter 14, in Rome in 1860, London: Macmillan, pages 207–208
    • He threw Dormer the paper, stooped to pat the flea-ridden puppy of the hotel, and went in.1913, D. K. Broster, G. W. Taylor, The Vision Splendid, London: John Murray, Book II, Chapter 15 (1)
  2. Mangy; filthy.

Synonyms of flea-ridden

Forms of flea-ridden

comparativemore flea-ridden
superlativemost flea-ridden
alternative formflearidden

Origin of flea-ridden

From flea + -ridden.

Questions about flea-ridden

What does flea-ridden mean?
Flea-ridden means infested with fleas.
What part of speech is flea-ridden?
Flea-ridden is an adjective.

Words near flea-ridden in the dictionary

  1. flea-marketer
  2. flea-marketers
  3. flea-marketing
  4. flea-markets
  5. flea-powder
  6. flea-ridden
  7. fleabag
  8. Fleabag era
  9. fleabaggy
  10. fleabags
  11. fleabane

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