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flea-bitten - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'flea-bitten' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Flea-bitten [ a.]
- Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.
- White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.

Meaning of 'flea-bitten' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . flea-bitten [ s]
Meaning (1):
- worn and broken down by hard use
Example in sentence:
  • a creaky shack;
  • a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape;
  • a flea-bitten sofa;
  • a run-down neighborhood;
  • a woebegone old shack

Nearby Words:

flea flea-beetle flea-bite flea-louse fleabane fleagh fleak fleaking fleam fleamy

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