hickeyn.

Brit.

/ˈhɪki/, U.S.

/ˈhɪki/

Forms: Also hickie.

Etymology: Origin unknown.

Chiefly U.S.

1. Any small gadget or device; something of little consequence; = doohickey n.Quot. 1909 is more specific than is warranted by the available evidence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial

gnatc1000

ball play?c1225

smalla1250

triflec1290

fly1297

child's gamec1380

motec1390

mitec1400

child's playc1405

trufferyc1429

toyc1450

curiosity1474

fly-winga1500

neither mass nor matins1528

boys' play1538

nugament1543

knack?1544

fable1552

nincety-fincety1566

mouse1584

molehill1590

coot1594

scoff1594

nidgery1611

pin matter1611

triviality1611

minuity1612

feathera1616

fillip1621

rattle1622

fiddlesticka1625

apex1625

rush candle1628

punctilio1631

rushlight1635

notchet1637

peppercorn1638

petty John1640

emptiness1646

fool-fangle1647

nonny-no1652

crepundian1655

fly-biting1659

pushpin1660

whinny-whanny1673

whiffle1680

straw1692

two and a plack1692

fiddle1695

trivial1715

barley-strawa1721

nothingism1742

curse1763

nihility1765

minutia1782

bee's knee1797

minutiae1797

niff-naff1808

playwork1824

floccinaucity1829

trivialism1830

chicken feed1834

nonsensical1842

meemaw1862

infinitesimality1867

pinfall1868

fidfad1875

flummadiddle1882

quantité négligeable1885

quotidian1902

pipsqueak1905

hickey1909

piddle1910

cream puff1920

squat1934

administrivia1937

chickenshit1938

cream puff1938

diddly-squat1963

non-issue1965

Tinkertoy1972

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing

minutea1450

minim1590

mite1594

titmouse1596

moteling1605

atom1633

thingling1652

long-little1653

parvitude1659

bodikin1668

eschantillon1720

niff-naff1808

smolt1808

runt1819

titty-tottya1825

featherweight1838

thinglet1839

shable1842

thumb1854

nubbin1857

speckle1882

teeny-weeny1894

hickey1909

tiddler1937

pinhead1951

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hickey (a), a device for bending a conduit, consisting of an iron pipe used as a handle fitted at one end with a tee through which the conduit is passed; (b) a small fitting used in wiring for electric lights, a fixture piped for gas.

1913 in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. 291/1 S.C. Rock Hill. Common. ‘Hand me that hickey.’

1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 298 Hickie, a word applicable to anything whose name one does not remember; ‘what's its name’.

1932 Atlantic Monthly CXLIX. 665 We have little hickeys beside our seats to regulate the amount of air admitted through a slot in each window.

1935 Cosmopolitan Oct. 24/2 The chances are the management will be putting hickeys in their keyholes.

1940 Sat. Evening Post 15 June 38/2 There was a violent distaste for the fraction-of-a-cent tokens, disks of aluminum with a hole in the center. These were variously called ‘Chinese money’, ‘hickeys’, ‘monkey money’ and ‘agony money’.

2. A pimple; a love-bite. U.S. dialect or colloquial.Said by Wentworth and Flexner to be c1915 but printed evidence is lacking.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [noun] > love-bite

love bite1749

hickey1934

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of > pimple

pimplea1398

plouk?c1425

whealc1440

knoll1499

red spota1500

knop1558

blob1597

bumb1598

pumple1601

burl1607

pimple spot1658

tiler1660

pipjenny1670

papula1694

grub1731

papilla1793

papule1828

maculopapule1900

hickey1934

zit1965

1934 Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs (1960) 19 Godamighty made a 'gator wid hickies all over his Tail.

1937 Ten-Story Love Mag. May 2 (advt.) Hickies spoil everything. I know. I had 'em until I began eating Fleischmann's yeast.

1946 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. Nov. 17 Hickey, a small festered spot on the skin of a person. Salem. Reported 1942.

1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xviii. 158 A woman is not just soul and hickie-squeezing.

1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xxv. 235 Tall..skinny, big blue hickie on the face.

3. Printing. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > blur or smudge

monk1683

mackle1706

slur1770

macule1841

shake1888

workup1948

hickey1961

1940 Correct English (Chicago) Mar. 63/3 Hickey, printer's slang term for ornament.

1961 H. B. Jacobson Mass Communications Dict. 163 Hickey. 1. Slang term for slight tears or rips in wet collodion or stripfilm negatives, or for small ‘runs’ or blemishes in sensitized coatings. 2. A speck on the printing area of an engraving that remains after the etch. Must be routed off.

1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset 273 Hickeys, faults in the printed result which show as irregular spots with white surrounding haloes, caused by dirt or hardened specks of ink.

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4. See jim-hickey n.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	hickey
释义	hickeyn. Brit. /ˈhɪki/, U.S. /ˈhɪki/ Forms: Also hickie. Etymology: Origin unknown. Chiefly U.S. 1. Any small gadget or device; something of little consequence; = doohickey n.Quot. 1909 is more specific than is warranted by the available evidence. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial gnatc1000 ball play?c1225 smalla1250 triflec1290 fly1297 child's gamec1380 motec1390 mitec1400 child's playc1405 trufferyc1429 toyc1450 curiosity1474 fly-winga1500 neither mass nor matins1528 boys' play1538 nugament1543 knack?1544 fable1552 nincety-fincety1566 mouse1584 molehill1590 coot1594 scoff1594 nidgery1611 pin matter1611 triviality1611 minuity1612 feathera1616 fillip1621 rattle1622 fiddlesticka1625 apex1625 rush candle1628 punctilio1631 rushlight1635 notchet1637 peppercorn1638 petty John1640 emptiness1646 fool-fangle1647 nonny-no1652 crepundian1655 fly-biting1659 pushpin1660 whinny-whanny1673 whiffle1680 straw1692 two and a plack1692 fiddle1695 trivial1715 barley-strawa1721 nothingism1742 curse1763 nihility1765 minutia1782 bee's knee1797 minutiae1797 niff-naff1808 playwork1824 floccinaucity1829 trivialism1830 chicken feed1834 nonsensical1842 meemaw1862 infinitesimality1867 pinfall1868 fidfad1875 flummadiddle1882 quantité négligeable1885 quotidian1902 pipsqueak1905 hickey1909 piddle1910 cream puff1920 squat1934 administrivia1937 chickenshit1938 cream puff1938 diddly-squat1963 non-issue1965 Tinkertoy1972 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing minutea1450 minim1590 mite1594 titmouse1596 moteling1605 atom1633 thingling1652 long-little1653 parvitude1659 bodikin1668 eschantillon1720 niff-naff1808 smolt1808 runt1819 titty-tottya1825 featherweight1838 thinglet1839 shable1842 thumb1854 nubbin1857 speckle1882 teeny-weeny1894 hickey1909 tiddler1937 pinhead1951 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Hickey (a), a device for bending a conduit, consisting of an iron pipe used as a handle fitted at one end with a tee through which the conduit is passed; (b) a small fitting used in wiring for electric lights, a fixture piped for gas. 1913 in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. 291/1 S.C. Rock Hill. Common. ‘Hand me that hickey.’ 1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 298 Hickie, a word applicable to anything whose name one does not remember; ‘what's its name’. 1932 Atlantic Monthly CXLIX. 665 We have little hickeys beside our seats to regulate the amount of air admitted through a slot in each window. 1935 Cosmopolitan Oct. 24/2 The chances are the management will be putting hickeys in their keyholes. 1940 Sat. Evening Post 15 June 38/2 There was a violent distaste for the fraction-of-a-cent tokens, disks of aluminum with a hole in the center. These were variously called ‘Chinese money’, ‘hickeys’, ‘monkey money’ and ‘agony money’. 2. A pimple; a love-bite. U.S. dialect or colloquial.Said by Wentworth and Flexner to be c1915 but printed evidence is lacking. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [noun] > love-bite love bite1749 hickey1934 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of > pimple pimplea1398 plouk?c1425 whealc1440 knoll1499 red spota1500 knop1558 blob1597 bumb1598 pumple1601 burl1607 pimple spot1658 tiler1660 pipjenny1670 papula1694 grub1731 papilla1793 papule1828 maculopapule1900 hickey1934 zit1965 1934 Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs (1960) 19 Godamighty made a 'gator wid hickies all over his Tail. 1937 Ten-Story Love Mag. May 2 (advt.) Hickies spoil everything. I know. I had 'em until I began eating Fleischmann's yeast. 1946 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. Nov. 17 Hickey, a small festered spot on the skin of a person. Salem. Reported 1942. 1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xviii. 158 A woman is not just soul and hickie-squeezing. 1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xxv. 235 Tall..skinny, big blue hickie on the face. 3. Printing. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > blur or smudge monk1683 mackle1706 slur1770 macule1841 shake1888 workup1948 hickey1961 1940 Correct English (Chicago) Mar. 63/3 Hickey, printer's slang term for ornament. 1961 H. B. Jacobson Mass Communications Dict. 163 Hickey. 1. Slang term for slight tears or rips in wet collodion or stripfilm negatives, or for small ‘runs’ or blemishes in sensitized coatings. 2. A speck on the printing area of an engraving that remains after the etch. Must be routed off. 1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset 273 Hickeys, faults in the printed result which show as irregular spots with white surrounding haloes, caused by dirt or hardened specks of ink. Categories » 4. See jim-hickey n. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2022). hickeyadj. Brit. /ˈhɪki/, U.S. /ˈhɪki/ Etymology: ? < hick v. slang. Thesaurus » Categories » Tipsy. Recorded in dictionaries of slang: Grose (1788), Matsell (1859), Barrère & Leland (1889), Berrey & Van den Bark (1942), etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1909adj.
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hickeyn.

hickeyadj.