see|Hickey
Image:hickey.jpg|thumb|200px|A love-bite on the neck.
English
wikipedia
Etymology
Unknown
Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪki|-ɪki
Noun
en-noun
- context|US|slang A bruise-like mark made during love-making by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
- Used by some speakers to refer to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
- printing A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface<!-- such as the litho plate --> resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.
Synonyms
(bruise-like mark): love bite, lovebite, knot
(tool): conduit bender
Wikisaurus-link|thingy
Related terms
doohickey, dohickey
Translations
trans-top|bruise-like mark
Finnish: fritsu
French: suçon m
German: Knutschfleck m
Icelandic: sogblettur m
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Italian: succhiotto m
Japanese: ã‚スマーク (kisumaaku)
Norwegian: sugemerke n
Spanish: chupetón m italbrac|Spain, chupón m italbrac|Latin America
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trans-top|referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled
Spanish: cacharro m, chisme m, vaina f italbrac|Caribbean|Central America|Colombia, coso m italbrac|River Plate region
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See also
Web page on printing hickeys
Category:Metasyntactic words
Category:Unknown etymology
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