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Boikin vs Bodikin - What's the difference?

boikin | bodikin |

As nouns the difference between boikin and bodikin

is that boikin is while bodikin is a diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase "odd's bodikin", a corruption of god's body.

boikin

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • References

    bodikin

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bodykin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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