godkin
(ˈgɒdkɪn)
Also goddikin.
[f. god n. + -kin; cf. Du. godeken (obs.).]
= godling.
| 1802 Coleridge Lett. 405 There was a Godkin or Goddessling included in each. 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 19 Aloft the godkin sits in pride, Exultin' in the jokes o' men. 1856 Masson Ess. iii. 74 The little godkin, Man, is quite as odd as on the day he was made. 1865 Macm. Mag. July 282 Who bathed in the baths?.. Who worshipped the godkins? |