Question #66608. Asked by
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Last updated May 28 2021.
Q.: I was trying to determine the origin of the word "Odds Bodkins" which just jumped into my peabrain whilst answering someone else's question on a sewing list that I'm on. They were asking about "holding clamps" and one kind is called a Bodkin. But I remember my grandmother {long dead} using the term Odds Bodkins.mindlesscrap.com/stumpme/07-02.htm webpage no longer exists
A.: Actually, the exclamation is spelled "odsbodikins!" It means a general oath and first appeared in the 18th century book, God's Little Body.
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