Hickey

Definitions: Hickey

Hickey

Noun

1. A small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne.

2. A temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover.

3. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known.

Date "hickey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Hickey

Domain	Definitions
Slang in 1811	HICKEY. Tipsey; quasi, hickupping. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Hickey

Synonyms: dohickey (n), dojigger (n), doodad (n), doohickey (n), gimmick (n), gismo (n), gizmo (n), gubbins (n), love bite (n), pimple (n), thingamabob (n), thingamajig (n), thingmabob (n), thingmajig (n), thingumabob (n), thingumajig (n), thingummy (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hickey

Specialty definitions using "hickey": CLP, CLP* ♦ HOCKEY. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hickey

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'd just helped Ed Hickey into a taxi. (Harvey; writing credit: Mary Chase;) When do I find out what a hickey is??? (The Kid; writing credit: Audrey Wells) Hey, cheer up! A hickey from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card. (Grease; writing credit: Bronte Woodard.) Pretty girl, Sam. Be careful she doesn't lose a baby tooth giving you a hickey. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) A hickey from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card, when you only care enough to send the very best. (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey)
Movie/TV Titles	Hickey & Boggs (1972)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hickey

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Prodigious Hickey (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Hickey

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Photographed following the reception. Those present are (in front, left to right): Mrs. Clara G. Noyes, Chairman, Red Cross Nursing Service; and Dame Maud McCarthy, Matron-in-Chief, British Territorial Nursing Service. Those standing in the rear are (from left to right): J. Beatrice Bowman, Superintendent, U.S. Navy Nurse Corps; Mrs. Mary A. Hickey, Nursing Service, Veterans Bureau; Mabel Boardman, Secretary, American Red Cross; Lucy Minnegrode, Superintendent, Public Health Nursing Service; Mrs. Eliott Wadsworth, Wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; and Major Julia Stimpson, Superintendent, U.S. Army Nurse Corps.Credit: NAVY.		Photographed following the reception. Those present are (in front, left to right): Mrs. Clara G. Noyes, Chairman, Red Cross Nursing Service; and Dame Maud McCarthy, Matron-in-Chief, British Territorial Nursing Service. Those standing in the rear are (from left to right): J. Beatrice Bowman, Superintendent, U.S. Navy Nurse Corps; Mrs. Mary A. Hickey, Nursing Service, Veterans Bureau; Mabel Boardman, Secretary, American Red Cross; Lucy Minnegrode, Superintendent, Public Health Nursing Service; Mrs. Eliott Wadsworth, Wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; and Major Julia Stimpson, Superintendent, U.S. Army Nurse Corps.Credit: NAVY.
	Hickey.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Hickey

"Hickey" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hickey" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	61	43,149

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Hickey

The following table summarizes the usage of "hickey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Hickey	Last name	10,000	1,173
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Hickey

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "hickey": do-hickey.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hickey

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
hickey	153	dave hickey	8
marilyn hickey	98	william hickey	7
hickey freeman	78	cure hickey	7
get hickey rid	76	hickey lapham	7
pauline hickey	66	ersel hickey	7
hickey marilyn ministry	57	mike hickey	7
give hickey	37	auto hickey lynn world	7
anderson hickey	29	john hickey	7
hickey removal	26	fred hickey high strategist tech	6
fred hickey	20	hickey rid	6
hickey college	20	anderson co hickey	6
hickey remove	20	charles hickey school	6
hickey lynn	18	dodge hickey lynn	5
chemist hickey	17	ford hickey stark	5
hickey remedy	13	jim hickey	5
hickey standish	12	hickey marylin	5
hickey hide	12	john benjamin hickey	5
cheryl hickey	9	brian hickey	5
hickey neck	9	hickey lapham steel	4
heal hickey	8	james hickey	4
freeman hickey suit	8	amanda hickey	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hickey

Language		Translations for "hickey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		Petit Bouton. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		キー入力 (ATM card, automatic teller machine, birch sugar, cache, cash, cash card, cash machine, cashbook, cashbox, cashier, cashless, cashless checkless society, cashless society, casserole, cast, caster, Castilian, casting, casting vote, caterpillar, Cathay, chimera, chinoform, Cicero, flexi-teller, key, kibbutz, kick, kickback, kickboxing, kickoff, kid, kiddie, kiddy, kids business, kimchee, kinesics, kinesiology, kinetic art, kiosk, kip, kiss, kiss-and-ride system, kit, kitchen, kitchen cabinet, kitchen drinker, kitchen programmer, kitchenware, Kitchin cycle, Kitsch, kiwi, kiwi fruit, Korean pickled cabbage, kymograph, lipstick mark, love bite, newscaster, passion mark, quinine, xenon, Xenon arc lamp, Xenon lamp, xylitol). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		キスマーク (lipstick mark, love bite, passion mark). (various references)

Pig Latin		ickeyhay

Russian		Штука. (various references)

Spanish		Truco (dodge, doodad, doodah, doohickey, gag, gimmick, hoax, knack, trick, wangle, wheeze, wrinkle), Coso (arena, doodad, doodah, doohickey, enclosure, inclosure, thingummy, woodwarm), Artilugio (contraption, doodad, doodah, doohickey, gadget, gadgets, gimmick, ruse, thingummy, widget). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Hickey

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hickey": hickeys. (additional references)
	Words ending with "hickey": doohickey. (additional references)
	Words containing "hickey": doohickeys. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hickey"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hickey" (pronounced hi"kē)
3	-i" k ē	Dickey, Dickie, dicky, Mickey, picky, quickie, Rickey, sticky, tricky.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Hickey

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-k-y"
	-2 letters: heck, hick, hike, icky, yech.
	-3 letters: chi, hey, hic, hie, ice, ich, ick, icy, key, khi, yeh.
	-4 letters: eh, he, hi, ye.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-k-y"
	+1 letter: hickeys.
	+2 letters: cheekily, thickety.
	+3 letters: doohickey, physicked, sketchily.
	+4 letters: cherrylike, cockneyish, doohickeys, hackneying.
	+5 letters: chimneylike, hypokalemic, keypunching, lickerishly.
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