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flearidden

flearidden is the alternative spelling of flea-ridden.

Meaning of flea-ridden

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
  2. Mangy; filthy.

Forms of flearidden

comparativemore flearidden
superlativemost flearidden

Questions about flearidden

What is flearidden the alternative spelling of?
Flearidden is the alternative spelling of flea-ridden.

Words near flearidden in the dictionary

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

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