hickey
- noun
- /ˈhɪki/
- NSFW
- Did you see all those hickeys?
- hickey on her neck
- Give her a hickey
- get a hickey
And immediately my mom goes, is that a Hickey?
- And immediately my mom goes, is that a Hickey?
- Little kisses, little nibbles on his neck, hickeys.
- I feel like Becca's had to cover up some stuff, you know, like hickeys.
Examples
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Her neck was uncovered, but I could see only a faint yellow stain of the hickey.
Fiction book (2002) -
Give me a hickey on my neck.
Blog text (27) -
Who gave you the hickey?
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- He has these hickeys on his neck.
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If he gives you a hickey, here's how you get rid of it.
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He gave me a hickey.
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Is that a hickey?
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He sees a hickey on her neck and knows he didn't put it there.
Fiction book (1992) -
She applies makeup to several hickeys on her neck.
Fiction book (1999) -
After their romantic evening, she noticed a hickey on his neck and smiled.
Synonyms
A temporary mark on the skin made by kissing or sucking
How Noticeable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hickey first meant a small lump or little thing, and by the early 1900s people used it for the small red 'mark' left by kissing or sucking. So a hickey today is a temporary reddish mark on the skin from a kiss.