Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with fleas or fleabites.
- adjective Informal Seedy; dilapidated.
- adjective Having a pale coat with reddish-brown flecks. Used of horses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bitten by a flea; infested with fleas.
- Having small reddish spots or lines upon a lighter ground: applied to the color of horses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bitten by a flea.
- adjective White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.
- adjective same as
creaky , 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Infested with
fleas - adjective
decrepit ordilapidated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective worn and broken down by hard use
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Examples
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We drove out of the Valley and into the desert, and not long after on account of how we were passing everything in sight although I didn’t know what the hurry was, we entered a little town I recognized, the one that Bernie had called flea-bitten.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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We drove out of the Valley and into the desert, and not long after on account of how we were passing everything in sight although I didn’t know what the hurry was, we entered a little town I recognized, the one that Bernie had called flea-bitten.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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We drove out of the Valley and into the desert, and not long after on account of how we were passing everything in sight although I didn’t know what the hurry was, we entered a little town I recognized, the one that Bernie had called flea-bitten.
To Fetch a Thief Spencer Quinn 2010
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I cry, and I am so happy to see my flea-bitten cat.
The Trouble With May Amelia Jennifer L. Holm 2011
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Newspapers blew across the deserted Ashoka Road and Parliament Street as a handful of officials, outnumbered by hungry-looking, flea-bitten dogs, tried to look busy with no crowd to control.
Heavy security leaves Dehli’s Commonwealth Games road race devoid of spectators 2010
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Don't be gnawing on one of those mangey, flea-bitten, critters.
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Don't be gnawing on one of those mangey, flea-bitten, critters.
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She even receives an anonymous email from a staff member calling her a "flea-bitten old bitch".
A Diary of the Lady: My First Year As Editor by Rachel Johnson – review Viv Groskop 2010
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The flea-bitten roan, on its four legs up-standing, continued bravely to stand until the lady was removed, whereupon, with a long sigh, it sank down on the ground.
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One, a flea-bitten roan, groaned continually from the moment Mrs. Morgan's burden was put upon him till she was shifted to the other horse.
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