Hickey

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hickey \hick"ey\, hickie \hick"ie\n.
     1. (Elec.) A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for
        mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe.
        [PJC]
  
     2. A red mark on the skin, caused by a passionate, sucking


        kiss at that location. [slang]
        [PJC]
  
     3. a {doohickey}. [informal]
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hickey
       n 1: a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule;
            common symptom in acne [syn: {pimple}]
       2: a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from
          kissing or sucking by their lover [syn: {love bite}]
       3: something whose name is either forgotten or not known [syn:
          {dohickey}, {dojigger}, {doodad}, {doohickey}, {gimmick},
          {gizmo}, {gismo}, {gubbins}, {thingamabob}, {thingumabob},
           {thingmabob}, {thingamajig}, {thingumajig}, {thingmajig},
           {thingummy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "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