hickey

See also Hickey

English

Wikipedia

A hickey on the neck.

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈhɪk.i/, X-SAMPA: /"hIk.i/
• Rhymes: -ɪki

Noun

hickey (plural hickeys)

1. (US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
2. Used by some speakers to refer to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
3. (printing) A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo.
4. Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
5. A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.

Synonyms

• (bruise-like mark): love bite, lovebite, knot
• (tool): conduit bender
• See also Wikisaurus:thingy

Derived terms

• doohickey, dohickey

Translations

bruise-like mark

• Catalan: xuclet (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吻痕 (cmn) (wěnhén), (slang; literally, "strawberry") 草莓 (cmn) (cǎoméi)

• Czech: cucflek (cs) m
• Dutch: zuigplek (nl) f, zuigvlek (nl) f
• Finnish: fritsu (fi)
• French: suçon (fr) m
• German: Knutschfleck (de) m

• Icelandic: sogblettur (is) m
• Italian: succhiotto (it) m
• Japanese: キスマーク (ja) (kisumāku)
• Norwegian: sugemerke (no) n
• Polish: malinka (pl) f
• Portuguese: chupão (pt)
• Russian: засос (ru) (zasós) m 
• Spanish: chupetón (es) m (Spain), chupón (es) m (Latin America)
• Swedish: sugmärke (sv) n

referring to an object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled

• Czech: bazmek (cs) m
• Dutch: ding (nl) n, spul (nl) n
• French: truc (fr) m

• Spanish: cacharro (es) m, chisme (es) m, vaina (es) f (Caribbean, Central America, Colombia), coso (es) m (River Plate region)

printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface

• Czech: pecka (cs) f

swelling in a tissue area

• Dutch: zwelling (nl) f, knobbel (nl) m

tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe

See also

• Web page on printing hickeys