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Hickie   Listen
noun
hickie, hickey  n.  
1.
(Elec.) A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe.
2.
A red mark on the skin, caused by a passionate, sucking kiss at that location. (slang)
3.
A doohickey. (informal)





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"Hickie" Quotes from Famous Books



... the 'ipsissima verba' of the Comedies, while all slur over or omit altogether passages in any way 'risqu.' There remains only our old friend 'Bohn' ("The Comedies of Aristophanes; a literal Translation by W. J. Hickie"), and what stuff 'Bohn' is! By very dint of downright literalness—though not, by-the-bye, always downright accuracy—any true notion of the Author's meaning is quite obscured. The ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al


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