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flear-mouse

flear-mouse is the alternative form of flittermouse.

Meaning of flittermouse

Noun

flittermouse (plural flittermice)

  1. (dialectal) A bat (a flying mammal).
    • I thank thee, gentle flittermouse, for these so pleasant memories. Have you ever caught and examined a flittermouse?1891, Conway Lloyd Morgan, Animal sketches

Forms of flear-mouse

pluralflear-mice

Questions about flear-mouse

What is flear-mouse the alternative form of?
Flear-mouse is the alternative form of flittermouse.

Words near flear-mouse in the dictionary

  1. fleamy
  2. fleapit
  3. fleapits
  4. fleaproof
  5. flear-mice
  6. flear-mouse
  7. flearidden
  8. fleas
  9. fleas in one's ear
  10. fleasome
  11. fleaweed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flear-mouse (page history and authors); flittermouse (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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