hickey

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hick=ey

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