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love-bite

love-bite is the alternative form of love bite.

Meaning of love bite

Noun

love bite (plural love bites)

  1. (UK) A bruise on the skin caused by someone sucking or biting it, usually with sexual intent.
    • Then the turtle-billing kisses, and the poignant painless love bites, which they both exchang'd in a rage of delight, all conspiring towards the melting period1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the Second]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume II, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 63
    Synonyms:
    hickey, monkey bite

Forms of love-bite

plurallove-bites

Questions about love-bite

What is love-bite the alternative form of?
Love-bite is the alternative form of love bite.

Words near love-bite in the dictionary

  1. love you
  2. love-aholic
  3. love-aholics
  4. love-bead
  5. love-beads
  6. love-bite
  7. love-bites
  8. love-bomb
  9. love-bombed
  10. love-bombing
  11. love-bombs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: love-bite (page history and authors); love bite (page history and authors). 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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