Flea-bite, subs. (old).—A trifle.
1630. Taylor, Works. If they doe lose by pirates, tempests, rocks, ’Tis but a fleabite to their wealthy stockes; Whilst the poore cutpurse day and night doth toile, Watches and wardes, and doth himselfe turmoile.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Flea-biting, subs. (old).—A trifle.
1621. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Their miseries are but flea-bitings to thine.
Flea- (or Flay-) Flint, subs. (old.)—A miser: Cf., Skin flint (q.v.).
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 141. The flea-flints … strip me bare.
Flear, verb. (old).—To grin. A flearing fool = a grinning idiot.
1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew.
Fleece, subs. (old).—An act of theft. Cf., old proverb, ‘to go out to shear and come home shorn.’ For synonyms, see Skin.