Word.ws English Dictionary

odso

odso interjection: expressing surprise or affirmation.

Interjection

  1. (obsolete) Expressing surprise or affirmation.
    • Abſ[olute]. Aye, Bob, Miſs Melville's Mr. Faulkland. / Acres. Od'ſo! ſhe and your father can be but juſt arrived before me— […]1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 22
    • Odso! Thou dost wax great in wisdom day-by-day!1841, Robert Eyres Landor, Earl of Brecon

Forms of odso

alternative formoddso

Origin of odso

Euphemistic form of godso.

Questions about odso

What does odso mean?
Odso means expressing surprise or affirmation.
What part of speech is odso?
Odso is an interjection.

Words near odso in the dictionary

  1. ods bud
  2. Odsal
  3. odsbodikins
  4. odsbud
  5. odsfish
  6. odso
  7. odsooks
  8. Odstock
  9. ODT
  10. ODTAA
  11. ODTs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: odso (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “odso.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/odso. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.