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fleabite
[ flee-bahyt ]
noun
- the bite of a flea.
- the red spot caused by the bite of a flea.
- any petty annoyance or irritation, as a trifling wound.
fleabite
/ ˈfliːˌbaɪt /
noun
- the bite of a flea
- a slight or trifling annoyance or discomfort
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Example Sentences
But punctilli are infections commonly sanguineous, as if they had arisen from a fleabite, only they remain continually.
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The water problem is still unsolved, and we get very thirsty; but thirst is a small fleabite, after all.
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A thousand cars are a fleabite compared with the daily movement in the busy season.
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Dr. Schlesien replied with an Atlas shrug under fleabite to the insensately infantile interrogation.
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But that expense was a fleabite when compared with the cost of the structural alterations that were now fairly in hand.
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