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Definition: FLEA-BITE |
FLEA-BITENoun1. 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. |
Date "FLEA-BITE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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