Terms vs Fleabite - What's the difference?
terms | fleabite |
The bite of a flea, or the mark caused by such a bite.
Something which causes only trifling irritation; a minor inconvenience.
* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh’, The Toys of Peace'', Penguin 2000 (''Complete Short Stories ), p. 408:
As nouns the difference between terms and fleabite
is that terms is while fleabite is the bite of a flea, or the mark caused by such a bite.fleabite
English
Alternative forms
* flea-biteNoun
(en noun)- He was a rich man, and the £2,000 a year, though not exactly a fleabite , did not seem an extravagant price to pay for the boarding-out of Crispina.
