beflea
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beflea (third-person singular simple present befleas, present participle befleaing, simple past and past participle befleaed)
- (transitive) To pester, as fleas do.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics:
- One of those bores
Who beflea'd with bad verses poor Louis Quatorze.