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interjection
Ods  interj.  A corruption of God's; formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases. "Ods bodikin." "Ods pity."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ods" Quotes from Famous Books



... this advantage over other meth- ods, - that in it Truth controls error. From this fact 145:18 arise its ethical as well as its physical ef- fects. Indeed, its ethical and physical effects are indissolubly connected. If there is any mystery 145:21 in Christian healing, it is the mystery which godliness ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy

... "Ods bodikins!" continued Smollett, laughing, "I never could pass a comfortable hostel without stopping, and so, with your permission, I'll e'en stop here, and whoever wills may lead friend Cyprian to his further ...
— The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... "'Ods-life! do you dare a love for your lady?" he said. He had better not have said it. Halfman turned on him with a face like a demon's and ...
— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... smooth-faced men performed the women's parts on the stage. That monarch, coming before his usual time to hear Shakspeare's Hamlet, sent the Earl of Rochester to know the reason of the delay; who brought word back, that the queen was not quite shaved. "Ods fish" (his usual expression), "I beg her majesty's pardon! we will wait till her barber ...
— The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes - Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection • Various

... "Ods splutter hur nails," cried the Welsh giant, who was ashamed to be outdone by such a little fellow as Jack; "hur can do that hurself." So he snatched up the knife, plunged it into his stomach, and in a ...
— The Fairy Book - The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew • Dinah Maria Mulock (AKA Miss Mulock)



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