- a very small jumping insect without wings, that bites animals and humans and drinks their blood
- The dog has fleas.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + flea- get
- have
- be infested with
- …
- bite
- carry disease
- spread disease
- …
- bite
- collar
- powder
- …
Word OriginOld English flēa, flēah, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlo and German Floh.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See flea in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywith a flea in your ear
- if somebody sends a person away with a flea in their ear, they tell them angrily to go away
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