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Definition of Flea bite
1. Noun. Sting inflicted by a flea.
2. Noun. A very minor inconvenience.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flea Bite
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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