hickey

キスマーク

皮膚にキスをして吸うことで残る、赤や紫の跡。

やさしい英語で： A red or purple mark left on the skin when someone kisses and sucks it.

• He had a hickey on his neck.
• She wore a scarf to hide the hickey.
• My boyfriend gave me a hickey.

類義語： love bite

よく使う表現： give someone a hickey, hickey on someone, hide a hickey

バイオリンだこ

バイオリンなどの楽器が演奏中に首を圧迫してできる跡。

やさしい英語で： A mark on the neck caused by an instrument pressing against it during playing.

• The violinist had a hickey on her neck.
• Long rehearsals made his violin hickey worse.
• A softer chin rest helped prevent hickeys.

類義語： fiddler's neck

よく使う表現： violin hickey, hickey on someone

あれ、何とかいうもの

名前が分からない、または思い出せない物を指す言い方。

やさしい英語で： An object whose name you do not know or cannot remember.

• Pass me that little hickey.
• What is this metal hickey called?
• He attached a hickey to the pipe.

類義語： thingy, thingamajig

よく使う表現： little hickey, metal hickey, attach a hickey

こぶ、腫れ

特にけがの後、皮膚にできる小さな腫れ。

やさしい英語で： A small swollen area, especially on the skin after an injury.

• A hickey appeared where he hit his forehead.
• The small hickey on her elbow was sore.
• The swelling faded, but the hickey remained for a day.

類義語： bump, swelling

よく使う表現： small hickey, hickey on someone