love bite

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 775437:

     […] 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?

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Translations

swelling on the skin — See also translations at 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

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