hickey

chupetón

Marca roja o morada que queda en la piel al besarla y succionarla.

En inglés sencillo: A red or purple mark left on the skin when someone kisses and sucks it.

• He had a hickey on his neck.
• She wore a scarf to hide the hickey.
• My boyfriend gave me a hickey.

Sinónimos: love bite

Expresiones frecuentes: give someone a hickey, hickey on someone, hide a hickey

marca de violinista

Marca en el cuello causada por la presión de un instrumento, como el violín, al tocarlo.

En inglés sencillo: A mark on the neck caused by an instrument pressing against it during playing.

• The violinist had a hickey on her neck.
• Long rehearsals made his violin hickey worse.
• A softer chin rest helped prevent hickeys.

Sinónimos: fiddler's neck

Expresiones frecuentes: violin hickey, hickey on someone

chisme, cacharro

Objeto cuyo nombre no se sabe o no se recuerda.

En inglés sencillo: An object whose name you do not know or cannot remember.

• Pass me that little hickey.
• What is this metal hickey called?
• He attached a hickey to the pipe.

Sinónimos: thingy, thingamajig

Expresiones frecuentes: little hickey, metal hickey, attach a hickey

chichón, hinchazón

Pequeño bulto, especialmente el que aparece en la piel después de una lesión.

En inglés sencillo: A small swollen area, especially on the skin after an injury.

• A hickey appeared where he hit his forehead.
• The small hickey on her elbow was sore.
• The swelling faded, but the hickey remained for a day.

Sinónimos: bump, swelling

Expresiones frecuentes: small hickey, hickey on someone