flea

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.
  2. A thing of no significance. derogatory
    — The nation of beggars on horseback which first colonized California has left behind it many traditions unworthy of conservation, and multitudinous fleas not at all traditional, but even less keepworthy […]
动词 v.
  1. To remove fleas from (an animal). transitive
    — I have seen a Lubra, or native woman, suckling two puppies; and, like monkeys, these ladies have a particular fancy for fleaing their dogs.
  2. Obsolete spelling of flay. alt-of,obsolete
    — […] he'd flea me alive like another St Bartholomew.

词形变化

fleas plural fleen UK,archaic,dialectal,plural fleas present,singular,third-person fleaing participle,present fleaed participle,past fleaed past flead participle,past flead past fleas present,singular,third-person fleaing participle,present flead participle,past flead past

词汇关系

衍生词
antiflea beach flea beflea chigoe flea deflea dog-flea model duck flea eight-spotted flea beetle fishhook flea fit as a flea flea allergy fleabag flea-bag fleabane flea beetle fleabite flea-bitten fleabitten flea bomb fleaborne fleabrain flea-brained flea circus flea collar flea comb flea flicker flea in one's ear flealike flea-louse flea market fleapit flea powder flea-powder fleaproof flea-ridden flea shampoo fleasome flea tree fleaweed fleawort hop flea house flea human flea leaf flea sand flea sandflea snow flea water flea

词源

词源 1
From Middle English fle, from Old English flēah, flēa, from Proto-West Germanic *flauh, from Proto-Germanic *flauhaz (compare West Frisian flie, Low German Flo, Flö, Dutch vlo, German Floh, Icelandic fló), from pre-Germanic *plóukos, *plówkos, from or akin to Proto-Indo-European *plus- (compare Latin pulex, Sanskrit प्लुषि (plúṣi)).
The archaic plural fleen is from Middle English fleen, flen, from Old English flēan (“fleas”).
词源 2
Alternative forms.
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