fleamy
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
fleamy (comparative more fleamy, superlative most fleamy)
- (obsolete, dialect) bloody; clotted
- c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain
- 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), J[ohn] M[ilton], Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. […], [London?: s.n.], →OCLC:
- spend words with this fleamy clodd of an Antagonist
References edit
- “fleamy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.