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hickey
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hickey has 2 senses
- hickey(n = noun.state) pimple, zit - a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne; Array is a kind of acne
- hickey(n = noun.state) love bite - a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover; Array is a kind of erythema
has particulars: papule, pustule
CIDE DICTIONARY
hickey, n.
- A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe. [PJC]
- A red mark on the skin, caused by a passionate, sucking kiss at that location. [PJC]
- a doohickey. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hickey, n. (pl. -eys) US colloq. a gadget (cf. DOOHICKEY).
Etymology
20th c.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
hickey
affair, article, artifact, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bulla, check, cicatrix, comedo, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, dingus, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, eppes, etwas, fault, flaw, flumadiddle, freckle, gadget, gigamaree, gimmick, gizmo, hemangioma, hootenanny, hootmalalie, jigger, keloid, kink, lentigo, material thing, milium, mole, needle scar, nevus, object, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, quelque chose, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, something, split, strawberry mark, sty, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, track, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whatchy, whitehead, widget
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