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▪ I. od1, 'od|ɒd|
Also odd.
A minced form of God (god n. 13, 14, Gad n.5), which came into vogue about 1600, when, to avoid the overt profanation of sacred names, many minced and disguised equivalents became prevalent. Very frequent in 17th and early 18th c.; now arch. and dial.
1. Used interjectionally, by way of asseveration: cf. Gad n.5 2, god n. 13. Still dial. (with little or no consciousness of its origin).
1695Congreve Love for L. iii. iv, Odso, my son Ben come? Odd, I'm glad on't: Where is he? Ibid. v. ii, Odd! I have warm blood about me yet. 1775Sheridan Rivals i. i, Odd! Sir Anthony will stare! c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. VI. 65 But od, you see, I couldna hae injured a hair of the lovely creature's head. 1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. x, Od, ye are a clever birkie! Mod. Sc. (Roxb.), Od, man, but it's a queer story.
b. In imprecations and exclamatory phrases, as od rabbit it, od rat it ('drat it, cf. drat), od save's, etc. Still common dialectally from Cumbria to I. of Wight, Kent, and Devon.
1749Fielding Tom Jones xvi. ii, Odrabbit it. Ibid. xvii. iii, When we imagined we had a fox to deal with, od-rat it, it turns out to be a badger. 1775Sheridan Rivals i. i, Odd rabbit it! when the fashion had got foot on the Bar, I guess'd 'twould mount to the Box! 1803Tannahill Soldier's Ret. 27 Oddsaffs! my heart neer did wallop cadgier. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. ix. The Burning, What are they fear'd on? fools! 'od rot 'em! 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Od swinge, a rustic oath. 'Od drat it, 'Od rabbet it, 'Od rot it, 'Od wite it, a species of mild imprecation. 1881I. of W. Gloss., Odd rot it, an exclamation. 1887Kent Gloss., 'Od rabbit it. 1888Berksh. Gloss., Odd drat-ut, an angry expression.
2. The possessive of 'od's (od's, odds, also ads, uds) occurs like God's, Gad's, in many asseverative or exclamatory formulæ. See god 14 a, b, c, Gad5 3.
The origin of 'od's being forgotten, it was written ods, odds, or run together with the following word, as ods-, odz-.
Among the phrases (now mostly obs., arch., or dial.) are 'od's blood, od's body, od's bones, od's death, od's feet, od's flesh, od's foot, od's life, od's mercy, od's truth, od's vengeance, od's blessed will, od's wounds, etc.; also with diminutives and perversions of words, as 'od's bob, od's bobs, od's bodikins, od's bud (= blood), od's fish, 'odslid, odd's lifelings, odsnigs, odsnouns, odsoons (= wounds), od's-pittikins, od's pittkins, od's pitlikins (pity), od's wucks, odzooks (= hooks), od-zookers (od-swookers), od zounds (= wounds), etc.; also ludicrously, 'od's haricots, od's kilderkins, etc. (Cf. Bob Acres' fancy oaths in Sheridan Rivals ii. i.)
1856G. H. Boker Poems (1857) II. 66 *'Ods blood! I hate them!
1748Smollett Rod. Rand. (Tauchn. 1845) 14 *Odds bob! I'd desire no better news.
1621Fletcher Wild-goose Ch. i. iii, Hark ye, hark ye! *Ods-bobs, you are angry, lady. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. I. 288 Odds bobs! how you talk!
1709Steele Tatler No. 137 ⁋2 *Odsbodikins, you do not say right. 1733Fielding Don Quix. in Eng. ii. viii, As sure as a gun—this is he—Odsbodlikins! 18..H. Ainsworth Rookwood i. ix, ‘Odsbodikins!’ exclaimed Titus, ‘a noble reward!’
a1895Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiog. iv. (1896) 99 ‘*Odds bones!’ said I, ‘don't they mean to give any quarter, then?’
1695Congreve Love for L. ii. v, *Odsbud, I would my Son were an Egyptian Mummy for thy sake. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 205 Od's bud, man, you have lived two centuries too late.
1724Swift Quiet Life, Thy wife has dev'lish whims; *Ods-buds, why don't you break her limbs?
1681Otway Soldier's Fort. i. i, *Odds fish I have a peep-Hole for thee. 1823Scott Peveril xlix, ‘Oddsfish’, said the King, ‘the light begins to break in on me’.
1715Vanbrugh Country Ho. ii. Wks. (Rtldg.) 465/2 *Odsflesh! we shall break all the inns in the country.
1667Dk. Newcastle & Dryden Sir Martin Mar-all v. i, *Ods foot, sir, there are some bastards..that are as well worthy to marry her, as any man.
1809Malkin Gil Blas x. x. ⁋33 *Ods haricots and cutlets! thought I.
1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xxiii. (1737) 99 *Odskilderkins, it seems..we are within two Fingers breadth of Damnation.
1742J. Yarrow Love at First Sight 81 *'Odslid that was ill Luck indeed.
c1718Prior Better Answer 12 *Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
1601Shakes. Twel. N. v. i. 187 *Odd's lifelings, heere he is.
a1643Cartwright Ordinary ii. iv. in Hazl. Dodsley XII. 249 *'Odsnigs, I guess'd so. 1794Wolcott (P. Pindar) Duck of Richmond's Dog Wks. 1812 III. 238 And lifted hands..and cried Odsnigs!
1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. i. 25 E. How many Numbers is in Nownes? W. Two. Q...I thought there had bin one Number more, because they say *od's-Nownes.
1694Motteux Rabelais v. viii. (1737) 30 *Odsoons, said ædituus. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 114 Od's 'oons, I drank deep last Night.
1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 293 *'Ods pittikins: can it be sixe mile yet? 1826Hor. Smith Tor Hill (1838) I. 173 ‘Ods pittikins! my master’, cried Sib.
1831Peacock Crotchet Castle vii. (1887) 93 *Od's vengeance, sir, some Aspasia and any other Athenian name of the same sort of person you like.
1598Shakes. Merry W. i. i. 273 *Od's plessed-wil: I will not be absence at the grace.
1728Vanbr. & Cib. Prov. Husb. i. i, Were Measter but hawf the Mon that I am—*Ods wookers!
1889Doyle Micah Clarke 394 *Od's wounds! How many are yours?
1785Span. Rivals 9 *Odd's wucks and tar! no, no, bar snaps there.
1695Congreve Love for L. v. ii, *Odzooks I'm a young Man.
1749Fielding Tom Jones xviii. xii, *Odzookers!..I will go with thee.
1835Hood Dead Robbery iv, *Odd zounds! Ten pounds, How sweet it sounds.
b. In od's me, od's my life, od's my will, and the simple 'od's, odds, originating from the foregoing through some confusion; or perhaps (as has been suggested) 's is for save, but no fuller form appears. Cf. god 14 c.
1598Shakes. Merry W. i. iv. 64 Od's-me: que ay ie oublie. 1600― A.Y.L. iii. v. 43 'Ods my little life, I thinke she meanes to tangle my eies too. Ibid. iv. iii. 17 'Od's my will, Her loue is not the Hare that I doe hunt. 1632Brome North. Lasse ii. vi. Wks. 1873 III. 42 Ods me I must go see her. 1700Congreve Way of World iii. v, Odds my life, I'll have him murdered! 1710Mischief of Prej. 3 Odds He's a brave Man indeed. 1763Foote Mayor of G. ii. Wks. 1799 I. 179 Odds me, brother Bruin, can you tell what is become of my wife? 1823Scott Peveril iii, Odds-my-life, madam..mine errand can speak for itself.
▪ II. od2|ɒd, əʊd|
[Arbitrary term: see quot. 1850.]
A hypothetical force held by Baron von Reichenbach (1788–1869) to pervade all nature, manifesting itself in certain persons of sensitive temperament (streaming from their finger-tips), and exhibited especially by magnets, crystals, heat, light, and chemical action; it has been held to explain the phenomena of mesmerism and animal magnetism. Also attrib. as od force, etc. (Cf. odyle.)
1850Ashburner tr. Reichenbach's Dynamics 224, I will take the liberty to propose the short word Od for the force which we are engaged in examining. Every one will admit it to be desirable that a unisyllabic word beginning with a vowel should be selected..for the sake of convenient conjunction in the manifold compound words. 1851H. Mayo Pop. Superst. (ed. 2) 13 To his new force..Von Reichenbach..gave the arbitrary but convenient name of Od, or the Od force. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. 295 That od-force of German Reichenbach Which still from female finger-tips burns blue. 1885H. S. Olcott Theosophy 212 So much of light is let into the old domain of Church ‘miracles’ by mesmerism and the Od discovery.
b. Forming the second element in various derivatives, as biod the ‘od’ of animal life, chymod chemical ‘od’, crystallod the ‘od’ of crystallization, elod electric ‘od’, heliod the ‘od’ of the sun, magnetod magnetic ‘od’, pantod ‘od’ in general, selenod or artemod lunar ‘od’, thermod heat ‘od’.
1850Ashburner tr. Reichenbach's Dynamics 224 Instead of saying, ‘the Od derived from crystallization’, we may name this product crystallod.
▪ III. od
ME. form of ad Obs., funeral pyre.
▪ IV. od
obs. form of odd, wood. |