Bodikin

Alternative forms

• bodykin

Origin

From body + -kin

Full definition of bodikin

Noun

1. A diminutive of body, forming part of the exclamatory phrase "odd's bodikin", a corruption of God's body.Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? — Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene II.