Meaning of love bite | Babel Free

Definitions

A bruise on the skin caused by someone sucking or biting it, usually with sexual intent.

British

Equivalents

Examples

“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 period”

Fanny Hill

“And when my teeth the poignant love-bite try, / Thine should return the painless poignancy.”

“[…] 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.”

“‘Gee! You ever notice the bloody big love bites on some of those sheilas that work in the Store?’”

“Easy girls and late nights / Cigarettes and love bites / Why do you have to be so cruel?”

CEFR level