HICKIE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Hickie

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

hickie, hickey n.

(Elec.) A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe.

A red mark on the skin, caused by a passionate, sucking kiss at that location. (slang)

A doohickey. (informal)

See images of 'Hickie'

Etymology of 'Hickie'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Hickie" Quotes from Famous Books

... ses, 'by th' way, who was that lad what carried th' flag?' he ses. There, Flemin', what d' yeh think 'a that? 'Who was th' lad what carried th' flag?' he ses, an' th' lieutenant, he speaks up right away: 'That's Flemin', an' he's a jimhickey,' he ses, right away. What? I say he did. 'A jim-hickey,' he ses—those 'r his words. He did, too. I say he did. If you kin tell this story better than I kin, go ahead an' tell it. Well, then, keep yer mouth shet. Th' lieutenant, he ses: 'He's a jimhickey,' an' th' ...

— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

... making patchwork. One boy was dangling his feet over the manger, several were perched on a ladder, and one was sitting cross-legged on a huge pumpkin. Johnny was going around as Grand Inquisitor from one to another. If a seam was puckered, he gave the unlucky seamstress what they called a "hickey,"—a tremendous thump on the head with his thumb and middle finger. If the stitches were big and uneven, he gave two hickeys and a pinch, and one boy got half a dozen, because Johnny said his dirty hands ...

— The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle • Annie Fellows Johnston