love bite
nounUK, US /ˈlʌv baɪt/
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UK 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:
- And when my teeth the poignant love-bite try, / Thine should return the painless poignancy.1797, Jean Bonnefons, Belinda; or, The Kisses of Joannes Bonefonius of Auvergne, London: G[eorge] Kearsley, s. XXXI (in imitation of Secundus's Basia), page 123:
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- […] 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.1917 April, Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
- ‘Gee! You ever notice the bloody big love bites on some of those sheilas that work in the Store?’1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 70:
- Easy girls and late nights / Cigarettes and love bites / Why do you have to be so cruel?1983, “Bad Boys”, in Fantastic, performed by Wham!: