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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From body + -kin.
Noun
bodikin (plural bodikins)
- A small body; forming part of the exclamatory phrase "ods bodikin".
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
References
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol 1, p0608, bodikin