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fleabite

UK/ˈfliːbʌɪt/

fleabite noun: the bite of a flea, or the mark caused by such a bite.

Noun

fleabite (plural fleabites)

  1. The bite of a flea, or the mark caused by such a bite.
  2. Something which causes only trifling irritation; a minor inconvenience.
    • He was a rich man, and the £2,000 a year, though not exactly a fleabite, did not seem an extravagant price to pay for the boarding-out of Crispina.1919, Saki, ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh’, The Toys of Peace, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 408

fleabite meaning in Tamil and Bengali

fleabite in Tamil

தெள்ளுக்கடி

fleabite in Bengali

মাছির কামড়, কামড়ের দাগ, একটি ছোট অসুবিধা

Forms of fleabite

pluralfleabites
alternative formflea-bite

Origin of fleabite

From flea + bite.

Questions about fleabite

What does fleabite mean?
Fleabite means the bite of a flea, or the mark caused by such a bite.
What is fleabite in Tamil?
Fleabite in Tamil is தெள்ளுக்கடி. See Fleabite meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fleabite?
Fleabite is a noun.
How do you pronounce fleabite?
Fleabite is pronounced /ˈfliːbʌɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of fleabite?
The plural of fleabite is fleabites.

Words near fleabite in the dictionary

  1. fleabags
  2. fleabane
  3. fleabanes
  4. fleabeetle
  5. fleabeetles
  6. fleabite
  7. fleabites
  8. fleabiting
  9. fleabitings
  10. fleabitten
  11. fleaborne

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fleabite (page history and authors); fleabite (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fleabite (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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