love bite
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[edit]Noun
[edit]love bite (plural love bites)
- A swelling on the skin caused by someone (or something) sucking the skin.
- Synonyms: (US) hickey, monkey bite
- 1917 April, Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
- […] with first a scarlet slash of tongue to cheek, he seized her hand between his teeth and dented the soft skin with a love bite that did not hurt.
- 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 70:
- ‘Gee! You ever notice the bloody big love bites on some of those sheilas that work in the Store?’
Translations
[edit]hickey — see hickey