Flea

Noun

 * 1) A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.
 * 2) A thing of no significance.

Derived terms

 * sand flea
 * sand fly
 * sandfly

Verb

 * 1) * 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 74:
 * In this Thwackum had the advantage; for while Square could only scarify the poor lad's reputation, he could flea his skin [...].
 * In this Thwackum had the advantage; for while Square could only scarify the poor lad's reputation, he could flea his skin [...].

Thesaurus
broad jumper, bucking bronco, buckjumper, cat flea, chigoe, cockroach, crab, dog flea, frog, gazelle, goat, grasshopper, grayback, high jumper, hopper, hurdle racer, hurdler, jackrabbit, jigger, jumper, jumping bean, jumping jack, kangaroo, leaper, louse, mite, nit, parasite, pole vaulter, red bug, roach, salmon, sand flea, stag, sunfisher, timber topper, vaulter, vermin, weevil

Etymology 1
From fle:, from  fleah:, flea:, from  (cf. West Frisian flie:, Dutch vlo:, German Floh:), from pre-Germanic *plóukos, from.

Pronunciation





 * Homophones: flee

Etymology 2
Alternative forms.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: vlooi
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (burğūθ)
 * Armenian: լու (lu)
 * Basque: arkakuso
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: puça
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 跳蚤
 * Min Nan: ka-cháu
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: dosu
 * Fijian: kutu
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: 'uku
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ノミ
 * Khmer: (jai chgai)
 * Korean: 벼룩 (byeoruk)


 * Kurdish:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maltese: bergħud
 * Mongolian: нохой бѳѳс
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: کک,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: deargad, deargann
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: booddo
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kiroboto (nc 7/8)
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Taos: phìayána
 * Thai: (màt)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: بۈرگە
 * Vietnamese: con bọ chét
 * Volapük: flib,  hiflib,  jiflib
 * Volapük: flib,  hiflib,  jiflib

Anagrams

 * alef
 * Lafe
 * leaf