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fleabites

fleabites is the plural of fleabite.

Meaning of fleabite

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

Questions about fleabites

What is fleabites the plural of?
Fleabites is the plural of fleabite.

Words near fleabites in the dictionary

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

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