'Sbodikinsn.
/ˈsbɒdɪkɪnz/ = God's bodikins! at bodikin n. 2, used in oaths and asseverations.
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > God's body
by God's corpusc1405
God's sides?1515
(by) Gog's arms, blood, body?1520
God's budkin1599
'Sbody1602
od's bobsa1625
'Sbud1676
Gadsbodikins1677
od's bodikins1677
'Sbodikins1677
Gad's bud1680
od's bud1682
'Sbobs1694
Gad's bobs1695
Gadsbudlikins1697
Cob's-body1708
1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle i. 3 'Sbodikins, I am told in the Country there's not a true Wit in all the Fraternity but he.
1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Epidicus v. vii, in tr. Plautus Comedies 120 'Sbudikins, you've almost walk'd me off my Legs tho'.
1734 H. Fielding Intrig. Chambermaid ii. ix. 37 S'bodlikins! I am in a Rage.
1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. iii. xiv. 57 'Sbodlikins! I find there's nothing in making Love, when a Man's but once got well into 't.
1790 By-stander 183 ‘Sbodikins’, cried Cozin, ‘but I do tell ye I be not’.
1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 115 I flopp'd forth, 'sbuddikins! on my own ten toes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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