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bodykin

bodykin is the alternative form of bodikin.

Meaning of bodikin

Noun

bodikin (plural bodikins)

  1. (obsolete) A small body; forming part of the exclamatory phrase "ods bodikins".
    • Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Forms of bodykin

pluralbodykins

Questions about bodykin

What is bodykin the alternative form of?
Bodykin is the alternative form of bodikin.

Words near bodykin in the dictionary

  1. bodyism
  2. bodyjack
  3. bodyjacked
  4. bodyjacking
  5. bodyjacks
  6. bodykin
  7. bodykins
  8. bodykit
  9. bodykits
  10. bodylength
  11. bodylengths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bodykin (page history and authors); bodikin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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