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Bodkin vs Boykin - What's the difference?

bodkin | boykin |

As nouns the difference between bodkin and boykin

is that bodkin is a small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather while boykin is a little boy.

As an adverb bodkin

is closely wedged between two people.

bodkin

English

(wikipedia bodkin)

Alternative forms

* bodikin, bodkine, botkin, boidken

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
  • A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
  • A hairpin.
  • A dagger.
  • * 1603 , , Hamlet , act 3, scene 1:
    • For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
    The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
    The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
    The insolence of office and the spurns
    That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
    When he himself might his quietus make
    With a bare bodkin ?
  • A type of arrowhead.
  • (printing) A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for picking up letters from a column or page in making corrections.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Closely wedged between two people.
    • to sit''' bodkin; to '''travel bodkin
    (Thackeray)

    boykin

    English

    Alternative forms

    * boikin “ boykin, n. ]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; Sept. 2008

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A little boy.

    • Synonyms

    * little boy

    References