† bodikinbodikien.
Obsolete.
1. A diminutive body; a corpuscle, an atom.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a particle
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1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 106 Small Boddikies or indivisible Particles of the Blood..If any reliques of the said Bodikies did remain.
1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Bodykin, a little body. Obs.
2. (God's, ods) bodikins! bodkins! (bodlikins!) God's dear body!: an oath. Cf. body n. Phrases 3.
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?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 184 Godes bodykins methinke we are all scase drie.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 532 Gods bodkin [1623 bodykins] man, much better. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. iii. 41 Body-kins M. Page.
1692 T. Southerne Wives Excuse ii. i. 16 God's Bodykins! Has she got the trick on't?
1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. viii. 32 Odsbodlikins..you have a..strange sort of a Taste.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxiv. 156 As for the matter of dress, bodlikins!
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