Synonyms for flea

Grammar : Noun

Spell : flee

Phonetic Transcription : fli

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Définition of flea

Origin : Old English flea, from Proto-Germanic *flauhaz (cf. Old Norse flo, Middle Dutch vlo, German Floh), perhaps related to Old English fleon "to flee," with a notion of "the jumping parasite," or perhaps from PIE *plou- "flea" (cf. Latin pulex, Greek psylla; see puce).
Flea-bag "bed" is from 1839; flea circus is from 1886; flea collar is from 1953.
"A man named 'Mueller' put on the first trained-flea circus in America at the old Stone and Austin museum in Boston nearly forty years ago. Another German named 'Auvershleg' had the first traveling flea circus in this country thirty years ago. In addition to fairs and museums, I get as high as $25 for a private exhibition." ["Professor" William Heckler, quoted in "Popular Mechanics," February 1928. Printed at the top of his programs were "Every action is visible to the naked eye" and "No danger of desertion."]

As in insect : noun bug
As in bug : noun insect
As in vermin : noun pest

Example sentences :

And he is quite capable of crushing his heart, just as one might crush a flea.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

And when the mouse saw the flea, he said to him, "what do you do for a living?"
Extract from : « Five Mice in a Mouse-trap » by Laura E. Richards

What kind of flea has bitten your bride, Béla, I should like to know?
Extract from : « A Bride of the Plains » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

You be off, Mr. Philip, without you want a flea in your ear.'
Extract from : « The Magic City » by Edith Nesbit

"Try it, and you'll find the flea can bite before he's pinched," said Max.
Extract from : « A Soldier of the Legion » by C. N. Williamson

I think Blake could have made a Picture of it as he did of the Flea.
Extract from : « Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes » by Edward FitzGerald

Why, when I have the flea as tight as you state, I may as well kill him myself.
Extract from : « Japhet in Search of a Father » by Frederick Marryat

Dont claw your back as if after a flea; or your head, as if after a louse.
Extract from : « Early English Meals and Manners » by Various

Not that she had any appetite, a flea wouldn't fatten on what she ate.
Extract from : « "Some Say" » by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Well, in half an hour out comes my Carry as lively as a flea.
Extract from : « Caught In The Net » by Emile Gaboriau

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