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Flea-bitten   /fli-bˈɪtən/   Listen
adjective
flea-bitten  adj.  
1.
Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.
2.
White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; said of the color of a horse.
3.
Same as creaky, 1.
Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, run-down, rundown, woebegone.





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"Flea-bitten" Quotes from Famous Books



... Carmen. "I want you to stay with me as long as you can. I like you in those clothes." She smiled at him as if she would like him in anything; but Nick was thinking about Jim Beach, wondering if the boy would have trouble with the flea-bitten gray, which he himself had newly broken ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... Hofe was the only member of the party who from habit insisted on leggings and boots. Their horses were steady, flea-bitten little beasts, not unlike mustangs, and mounts had been provided for the gun-bearers, to the huge delight of all three. Gholab Singh also demanded a horse, which he obtained, as being worthy of ...
— The Rogue Elephant - The Boys' Big Game Series • Elliott Whitney
... and Japs and orientals altogether. Only vermin teem by the billion. Higher types breed slower. I would have loved the Aztecs and the Red Indians. I KNOW they hold the element in life which I am looking for—they had living pride. Not like the flea-bitten Asiatics—even niggers are better than Asiatics, though they are wallowers—the American races—and the South Sea Islanders—the Marquesans, the Maori blood. That was the true blood. It wasn't frightened. All the rest are craven—Europeans, Asiatics, Africans—everyone at his own individual ...
— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence
... conditions, hygienic and otherwise. I am rooming with an Irish family whose floor space is limited, so we all have shake-downs, and in the morning can clear the decks for action with no bedsteads in the way. I am very 'crummy,' badly flea-bitten, overrun with bed bugs, somewhat fly-blown, but, redemption of it all, I am free and always drunk. Still, I am really getting tired of playing the knock-about comedian and shall ...
— An Anarchist Woman • Hutchins Hapgood
... God-fearing man had crossed the mountains, driving before him an "old flea-bitten gray horse" loaded with Bibles, and had cast his lot with the Holston settlers. By his energy in founding churches and in building schoolhouses, as well as by his skill in shooting Indians, he had become a potent influence for good among these ...
— Hero Stories from American History - For Elementary Schools • Albert F. Blaisdell


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