love bite

Definition

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

Example Sentences

• "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"
• "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."