English

Alternative forms

• bodykin

Noun

bodikin ‎(plural bodikins)

1. A diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase "odd's bodikin", a corruption of God's body.

   Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? — Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene II.

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol 1, p0608, bodikin