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单词 goddikin
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goddikinn.

Brit. /ˈɡɒdɪkɪn/, U.S. /ˈɡɑdəkɪn/
Forms:

α. 1600s– goddikin.

β. 1900s– goddikins.

Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a Russian lexical item. Etymons: god n., English -ikin , -kin suffix; god n., English -ikins.
Etymology: In α. forms < god n. + -ikin, variant of -kin suffix, probably after manikin n. (compare discussion at -kin suffix). In β. forms < god n. + -ikins, variant of -kins suffix, after Russian božen′ka dear God (see godkin n.). Compare Dutch †godeken , Middle High German gotechen . Compare earlier godling n. and later godkin n.In quot. 1991 with reference to the 1913 letter by Lenin translated in quot. 1931 at godkin n.
rare.
A little or inferior god; = godling n. 1.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > demigod or hero
kingeOE
half-godc1374
semigoda1464
heroa1522
demigod1530
indigetec1550
petty god1581
under-god1583
heroic1586
godling1596
semi-deity?1624
goddikin1675
medioxumus1677
godkin1765
man-god1826
godlet1884
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 180 A little Goddikin, No bigger than a Skittle-pin.
1685 S. Wesley Maggots (new ed.) 4 I'll Mount no more, but here sit steady, Since I'me a Goddikin already.
a1874 S. T. Dobell Poet. Wks. (1875) II. 417 You see the bird-popping goddikins—ten To one I'll warrant you.
1969 A. Davidson Phoenix & Mirror iii. 36 It were not befitting my handsome goddikin... She crooned her madwoman's tale of how Kingdom (a lean and rangy tom with scarred flanks) had been welcomed aboard as befit his semi-divinity.
1991 H. Walsh in E. M. Thompson Search for Self-definit. in Russ. Lit. iii. 40 Vasilii Belov and Viktor Astaf'ev are criticized for what Losoto calls, echoing Lenin's phrase, ‘flirting with Goddikins’ (koketnichan'e s bozhen'koi).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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