Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase “odd's bodikin,” a corruption of God's body. Also spelled
bodykin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Same as
bodkin ; -- a variant spelling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase "odd's bodikin", a corruption of God's body.
Etymologies
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From body + -kin
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Examples
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Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
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