What does Odds Bodkin mean?
What does Odds Bodkin mean?
antiquated A minced oath for “God’s body,” expressing surprise, shock, or astonishment. Odds bodkins, the bill for dinner is nearly $200!
Where did Odds Bodkins come from?
HAMLET: God’s bodykins, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who should ‘scape whipping? The first to use ‘odds bodkins’ in something approaching the current spelling was Henry Fielding, in Don Quixote in England, 1734: “Odsbodlikins… you have a strange sort of a taste.”
What is bodkin used for?
Bodkins are used to thread cords, elastics, ribbons or tapes through pre-made holes and tubes in a cloth or a garment. They may also be used as hairpins. Bodkins can be made out of a wide range of materials, such as bone, metal, plastic, etc.
Who said odds bodkins?
Horatio Prim : Odds, bodkins, and copper pots!
What is a bodkin weapon?
A bodkin is a small knife, usually contained in a wrist sheath. Paul Atreides wields a bodkin in practice combat with Gurney Halleck shortly before leaving Caladan for Arrakis.
Where did the term Egads come from?
exclamation. archaic. a mild oath or expression of surprise. Word origin. C17: probably variant of Ah God!
What’s a bodkin used for?
A bodkin can be used for many things – drawing elastic back through waistbands of sweatpants, skirts; drawing ribbon or webbings through casings; turning out fabric tubes; inserting cording, or extracting it and probably more.
What does a bodkin look like?
It is shaped like a tweezer. It is called a pinch bodkin – it pinches the ribbon/elastic or whatever you are using with special teeth and you can tighten the pinch with a sliding ring around the hands of the bodkin which can be adjusted to your desired tightness.
What does a bodkin mean?
1a : dagger, stiletto. b : a sharp slender instrument for making holes in cloth. c : an ornamental hairpin shaped like a stiletto. 2 : a blunt needle with a large eye for drawing tape or ribbon through a loop or hem.
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