Definitions for flea

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Spelling: [flee]

IPA: /fli/

Flea is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in flea (aefl).

Definitions for flea

noun

1. any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
2. either of two common fleas of the genus Ctenocephalides, the very small, black C. felis (cat flea) or the similar but larger C. canis (dog flea) both of which infest cats, dogs, and occasionally humans.
3. any of various small beetles and crustaceans that leap like a flea or swim in a jumpy manner, as the water flea and beach flea.

Idioms

1. flea in one's ear, a disconcerting rebuke or rebuff: a broad hint.

Origin of flea

before 900; Middle English fle, Old English flēah, flēa; cognate with German Floh; akin to flee

Examples for flea

Some kind of fly, gnit, gnat, tick or flea of some kind...the desert kind.

A flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, from an infected little mammal—usually a rat—can hop from the dying rat onto a human and bite it.

I grew up in New York and there was a Caldor that had a Sunday flea market.

What kind of flea has bitten your bride, Béla, I should like to know?

Six months after he arrived in Paris, he found another high-wheeled bicycle in a flea market and bought that too.

"Try it, and you'll find the flea can bite before he's pinched," said Max.

You be off, Mr. Philip, without you want a flea in your ear.'

And when the mouse saw the flea, he said to him, "what do you do for a living?"

And he is quite capable of crushing his heart, just as one might crush a flea.

And it all began with a young model rooting through Paris flea markets to find something that made her feel good.