love bites
love bites is the plural of love bite.
Meaning of love bite
Noun
love bite (plural love bites)
- 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
Questions about love bites
- What is love bites the plural of?
- Love bites is the plural of love bite.
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