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?”

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