fleen

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English flen; equivalent to flea +‎ -en (plural ending).

Noun[edit]

fleen

  1. (archaic or UK dialectal) plural of flea

Anagrams[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English fle, from Old English flēah, from Proto-West Germanic *flauh.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

fleen

  1. fleas

References[edit]

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 40