Definition of Flea bite

1. Noun. Sting inflicted by a flea.

Generic synonyms: Bite, Insect Bite, Sting

2. Noun. A very minor inconvenience.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flea Bite

flayings
flays
flaysome
flea
flea-beetle
flea-bitten
flea-bitten kidney
flea-borne typhus
flea-lice
flea-louse
flea-ridden
flea bag
flea bags
flea beetle
flea beetles
flea bite (current term)
flea circus
flea in one's ear
flea market
flea markets
flea pit
fleabag
fleabags
fleabane
fleabanes
fleabite
fleabites
fleabitten
fleaborne
fleahopper

Literary usage of Flea bite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Flea-bite. It it a mere flea-bite. A thing of no moment. ... Mr. Disraeli spoke of the national debt аз A mere flea-bite. Flea's Jump. ..."

2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"flea bite. The bite of a flea. See Flea- bite. F. seed, oil of. Linseed oil, Oleum Uni. F. seed tea. 'I lie. same as Linseed tea. F., toad. ..."

3. Typhus Fever with Particular Reference to the Serbian Epidemic by Richard Pearson Strong (1921)
"The fresh flea bite is distinguishable from the pink maculo- papule of the ... The old flea bite differs from the petechial typhus macule in being of a ..."

4. Some Brief Comments on Passing Events: Made Between February 4th, 1853, and by Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1884)
"Why, Sir, it's a flea-bite in the ocean; " and the second was, " Depend upon it, Sir, the pale face of the British soldier is the backbone of your Indian ..."

5. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"He had never thought of the sore in this connection, but remembered most distinctly that it followed a flea-bite in an omnibus, and had been caused, ..."

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