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flea
noun
flea-bitten
adjective
flea circus
noun
flea market
noun
chigger
noun
Spitalfields
antiques
Definition of
flea noun
from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
flea
noun
fliː
fliː
a very small jumping insect without wings, that bites animals and humans and sucks their blood
The dog has fleas.
Idioms
with a flea in your ear
if somebody sends a person away
with a flea in their ear
, they tell them angrily to go away