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FLEA-BITE

Definition: FLEA-BITE

FLEA-BITE

Noun

1. A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea.

2. The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FLEA-BITE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: FLEA-BITE

DomainDefinition

Literature

Flea-bite It is a mere flea-bite. A thing of no moment. Thus, a merchant who has suffered loss by speculation or failure might say that the loss is a mere flea-bite to him. A soldier might call a wound a mere flea-bite. A passing inconvenience which annoys but leaves no permanent injury. Mr. Disraeli spoke of the national debt as a mere flea-bite. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: FLEA-BITE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Unimportance

Minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: FLEA-BITE

Language Translations for "FLEA-BITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pickim pleshti, bezdi (annoyance, awkwardness, bogey, bother, botheration, displeasure, hassle, officiousness, peeve, trouble). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ухапване от бълха, дребна работа (non essential, rope-yarn). (various references)

   

Czech

  

bleší kousnutí. (various references)

   

French

  

vétille, piqûre de puce, broutille. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bolhacsípés. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ea-biteflay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

fleac (a piece of cake, bauble, bunkum, chaff, doit, fillip, flapdoodle, flummery, fribble, kickshaw, knick knack, nil, nothing, nothingness, peppercorn, pin head, push over, rot, rubbish, rubble, small beer, stiver, tittle tattle, trash, trifle, trinket), pişcãturã de purice, nimic (nothing). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

блошиный укус (fleabite). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ujed buve. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pire ısırığı, hafif rahatsızlık. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FLEA-BITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fleabite.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-f-i-l-t"

-2 letters: albeit, albite, bailee, beflea, belief, fetial.

-3 letters: abele, befit, belie, betel, blate, bleat, blite, elate, elite, fable, fetal, filet, fleet, flite, table, telae, telia.

-4 letters: abet, able, alee, alef, alif, alit, bail, bait, bale, bate, beat, beef, beet, belt, beta, bile, bite, blae, blat, blet, fail, fate, feal, feat, feel, feet, felt, feta.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-f-i-l-t"
 

+1 letter: fleabites.

 

+2 letters: filterable.

 

+3 letters: battlefield, beautifuler, certifiable, forfeitable, inflectable, irrefutable, rectifiable.

 

+4 letters: battlefields, beautifulest, biflagellate, defibrillate, fertilizable, identifiable.

 

+5 letters: beautifulness, defeasibility, defibrillated, defibrillates, feasibilities, indefatigable, nonfilterable, preferability.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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