bodikin

English

Alternative forms

• bodykin

Etymology

From body +‎ -kin

Noun

bodikin (plural bodikins)

1. A diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase "Odd's bodikin", a corruption of God's body.
   • William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene II.

     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