α. 1600s– goddikin.
β. 1900s– goddikins.
Also with capital initial.
单词 | goddikin |
释义 | goddikinn.α. 1600s– goddikin. β. 1900s– goddikins. Also with capital initial. rare. A little or inferior god; = godling n. 1. ΘΚΠ 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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