flea

[US]/fliː/
[UK]/fli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a small wingless jumping insect that feeds on the blood of mammals and birds; someone who is very greedy or avaricious; refuse someone's request in a curt or unfriendly way.

Phrases & Collocations

flea market

water flea

Example Sentences

a crowd of flea-bitten louts.

she expected to be sent away with a flea in her ear.

Flea bites can cause a person to develop a rash known as fleabite dermatitis.

the proposed energy tax amounted to little more than a flea bite.

I'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.

When he came to ask for his job back, we sent him away with a flea in his ear.

Need is alexipharmic, choose flea to rest, half branch lotus, Long Kui, Asian puccoon;

"Pet cool" dry aerosol, the product of deodorant, disinfection, binapacryl, eliminate fleas role.

My friend likes to stroll around the flea market on the chance of picking up something of value.

Air;food and drink;routine/daily work and everyday contact;swimming pool;conenose/blood sucking insects,mosquitos,fleas,louses,etc.

" Water flees fleas" are not insects but copepods, a crustation crustacean like lubster lobsters and crubs crabs but extremely small.

I was ready to leave the flea market, when, on one table, among a gallimaufry of undistinguished objects, I caught sight of an exquisite silver spoon engraved with my initials.

Several distinct rickettsiae (a parasite carried by ticks, fleas, and lice) cause a disease known as typhus in humans.All cause disease with similarities of fever, headache, and rash.

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