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Fleabite
FLE'ABITE
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fleabite
fleabite
English
Alternative forms
- flea-bite
Noun
fleabite (plural fleabites)
- The bite of a flea, or the mark caused by such a bite.
- Something which causes only trifling irritation; a minor inconvenience.
- 1919, Saki, ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh’, The Toys of Peace, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 408:
- 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: