1. 1吻痕(台灣年輕人也常叫「草莓」)

    A hickey is a red or purple mark on the skin, most often on the neck, left when someone sucks or kisses hard there as a sexual act. People also call it a love bite. It is not a bump from a door, and it is not a medical rash. The mark usually in a few days. The word is informal; you would not put it in a school report. American English uses hickey; British English more often says love bite. People hide one with a collar or makeup because it tells a private story in public. Though actually, older American English also used hickey for a small nameless , but that use is much rarer now, and this is the skin-mark sense.

組成The origin of this meaning is unknown. There is an Irish family name Hickey, from a word for a healer, but that is a different story and not where the mark-on-the-skin word comes from.

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Hickeyname

  • 1

    A surname from Irish.

hickeynoun/ˈhɪk.i/

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    slangA 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 chest
    • 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.
  • 2

    A similar mark made by the pressure of a musical instrument such as a violin or viola against the neck.

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    dialectalA pimple.

    • No, a pimple is not a small pimp. It is what they call a hickey in the country. Look up papules.
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    slanginformalAn object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.

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    mediaprintingpublishingA 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.

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    informalmediaprintingpublishingA 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.
    • 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.
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    Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.

  • 8

    A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
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    slangbusinessfinanceAn 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.

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