love bite

See also: lovebite and love-bite

English

Alternative forms

• lovebite, love-bite

Noun

love bite (plural love bites)

1. A swelling on the skin caused by someone (or something) sucking the skin.

   Synonym: (US) hickey

   • 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.

   • 1983, “Bad Boys”, in Fantastic, performed by Wham!:

     Easy girls and late nights / Cigarettes and love bites / Why do you have to be so cruel?

Translations

swelling on the skin — see also hickey

• Breton: pok kloz
• Catalan: xuclet (ca)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: cucflek (cs) m
• Dutch: zuigzoen (nl), zuigplek (nl) f, zuigvlek f
• Estonian: maasikas (et)
• Finnish: fritsu (fi), huunpurema
• French: suçon (fr) m, sucette (fr) f (Quebec)
• Galician: chupón m, chucho m
• German: Knutschfleck (de) m
• Hebrew: נשיכת אהבה‎ (he)
• Icelandic: sogblettur m
• Italian: succhiotto (it) m
• Japanese: キスマーク (kisumāku)
• Macedonian: сли́вка f (slívka)
• Norwegian: sugemerke n
• Polish: malinka (pl) f
• Portuguese: chupão (pt)
• Russian: засо́с (ru) m (zasós)
• Spanish: chupetón (es) m (Spain), chupón (es) m (Latin America), chupete (es) m (Mexico, slang)
• Swedish: sugmärke (sv) n
• Turkish: aşk ısırığı

Anagrams

• belovite