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bodikin en · NOUN

Etymology

From body + -kin.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of bodkin.
   alt of bodkin
2. (obsolete) A small body; forming part of the exclamatory phrase "ods bodikins".
   • Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

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