Flea-ridden
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Flea-ridden is an adjective meaning Infested with fleas.
Meaning
Infested with fleas.
More Meanings
- Mangy; filthy.
Example Sentences
He threw Dormer the paper, stooped to pat the flea-ridden puppy of the hotel, and went in.
“Tell them, then, that if they don't go...I’ll knock all their teeth out...I’ll tear their ears off...I’ll hang the lot of them...and that I'll burn down their entire flea-ridden village. Understand?”
Two or three times a week a sort of Italian eil-wagen, a funereal and tumble-down, flea-ridden coach, with windows boarded up so high that, when seated, you cannot see out of them, and closed hermetically, after Italian fashion, shambles along at jog-trot pace between the two towns, and takes a livelong day, from early morning to late at night, to perform the journey.
Word Forms
- flearidden
Synonyms for flea-ridden
Depending on context, synonyms include flea-bitten.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flea-bitten, buggy, lousy, fleasome, wormed, bedbuggy.
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