hickey
UK/ˈhɪk.i/
hickey noun: a bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
Noun
hickey (plural hickeys)
- A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
- But Louis Vuitton bras all over your breasts / Got me wanting to put hickeys all over your chest2003, “Stand Up”, in Chicken-n-Beer, performed by Ludacris ft. Shawnna
- When it comes to hickeys, the best I can tell you is that a lot of girls cover them with makeup or a turtleneck shirt. But let me close with a final thought. Never be ashamed of your hickeys. Show them off proudly as badges of love.2005, William Cane, The Art of Kissing, 2nd edition, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 128
- A similar mark made by the pressure of a musical instrument such as a violin or viola against the neck.
- A pimple.
- No, a pimple is not a small pimp. It is what they call a hickey in the country. Look up papules.1909, “Syphilo-dermo Urologic Maxims”, in American Journal of Dermatology and Genito-urinary Diseases, page 89
- An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
- 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, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.
- A serif or other ornamentation on type.
- Years ago, there were internal company standards for dark center (ink color) hickeys and for white voids in solids/type.2008, American Printer, volume 125, page 63
- It is generally believed, by those who study such things, that serif typefaces are easier to read when reading a lot of words. The hickeys (serifs) on each letter tend to push our eye toward the next letter.2018, Paul W. Ross, Revival: The Handbook of Software for Engineers and Scientists
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.
- Synonyms:
- conduit bender
- An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action.
- take a hickey
- Farmer Jones took a hickey on his soybean crop when the flood washed the seeds away.
Proper noun capitalized: Hickey
Hickey (plural Hickeys)
- A surname from Irish.
hickey meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Odia and Tagalog
hickey in Tamil
- குழாய் வளைப்பான்
hickey in Marathi
- हिकी
hickey in Odia
- ହିକୀ
hickey in Tagalog
- bruise-like mark
- tsikinini
Synonyms of hickey
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Forms of hickey
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hickeys |
| alternative form | hicky |
| alternative form | hickie |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Hickeys |
Origin of hickey
Unknown.
From Irish Ó hÍcidhe (“descendant of a healer”), from ící (“healer”).
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Questions about hickey
- What does hickey mean?
- Hickey means a bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
- What is hickey in Tamil?
- Hickey in Tamil is குழாய் வளைப்பான். See Hickey meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hickey?
- Hickey can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce hickey?
- Hickey is pronounced /ˈhɪk.i/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hickey?
- The plural of hickey is hickeys.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hickey (page history and authors); Hickey (page history and authors); hickey (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hickey (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hickey (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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