'Sbodikins
(ˈsbɒdɪkɪnz)
A euphemistic shortening of God's bodikins (see god n. 14 b, Od1 2, and bodikin).
| 1676 Durfey Madam Fickle i. i. (1677) 3 'Sbodikins, I am told in the Country there's not a true Wit in all the Fraternity but he. 1694 Echard Plautus 120 'Sbudikins, you've almost walk'd me off my Legs tho'. 1733 Fielding Intrig. Chamberm. ii. ix. S'bodikins! I am in a rage. 1733 ― Quixote in Eng. iii. xiv, 'Sbodlikins! I find there's nothing in making love when a man's but once got well into 't. 1790 Bystander 183 ‘Sbodikins’, cried Cozin, ‘but I do tell ye I be not’. 1872 Calverley Fly Leaves (1884) 115, I flopp'd forth, 'sbuddikins! on my own ten toes. |