Definitions for flea-bitten

flea-bitten flea-bit·ten

Spelling: [flee-bit-n]
IPA: /ˈfliˌbɪt n/

Flea-Bitten is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 470 anagrams from letters in flea-bitten (-abeefilntt).

Definitions for flea-bitten

adjective

  1. bitten by a flea or fleas.
  2. infested with fleas.
  3. shabby; dilapidated; wretched.
  4. (of a horse) having a light-colored coat with small, dark spots or streaks.

Origin of flea-bitten

First recorded in 1560-70

Examples for flea-bitten

He led the flea-bitten mare to the cherry tree and tied her there.

I was flea-bitten, a mite sarcastic, and fundamentally hungry.

This was his remark: "There was never a flea-bitten mare that was a poor horse."

He was a mouse-coloured, slate-coloured, flea-bitten roan-dun, if you can conceive it.

You are worse than a dog, you old flinty-faced, flea-bitten scrub.

All that Mallory could do was to admit that he was a flea-bitten what-he-said, and back away.

Even the village dogs were there, a legion of snarling, flea-bitten curs.

He was a mouse-coloured, slate-coloured, flea-bitten roan- dun, if you can conceive it.

The flea-bitten gray was all horse, but he had a white-rimmed eye.

But waste not your pity upon Belshazzar, the flea-bitten sorrel.

Word Value for flea-bitten
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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