The Rice University Neologisms Database

To give a hicky—the mark caused by blood cells being sucked to the surface of the skin, where they die and remain until the body removes them. The word “hickify” seems to be an extension of the word “hicky”, having just added the verb suffix “-ify” to th At first glance, this word seems to be a suffixation of hicky, but with a little background knowledge, it is easy to see that the word is derived through eponymy. The girl mentioned earlier is named (hidden for privacy) Hicks and she is notorious for always giving multiple people hickies at parties, so much so that the mark left by the act of sucking on one’s skin, in particular the neck, has become more associated with the person ______ Hicks (at least at my college) than with the name of the act itself. Thus, if her last name were “Mark”, we would call the act of getting a hicky “markified”, not “hickified.” So the superficial connection between the term and the act is deceptive.