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flea-bitten
[ flee-bit-n ]
adjective
- bitten by a flea or fleas.
- infested with fleas.
- shabby; dilapidated; wretched.
- (of a horse) having a light-colored coat with small, dark spots or streaks.
flea-bitten
adjective
- bitten by or infested with fleas
- informal.shabby or decrepit; mean
- (of the coat of a horse) having reddish-brown spots on a lighter background
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Word History and Origins
Origin of flea-bitten1
First recorded in 1560–70
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Example Sentences
"I guess that's the best rabbit dog anywhere around here," he said, as a flea-bitten cur trotted past.
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Tying his dejected, flea-bitten grey horse in a stall, he unbuckled his rusty spurs and hung them over the horn of his saddle.
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I was flea-bitten, a mite sarcastic, and fundamentally hungry.
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I found a pair of flea-bitten gray Flemish mares, weighing about twenty-eight hundred pounds.
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A pick and fishing rod lay across the door sill and a lean, flea-bitten dog dozed at her feet.
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