Gadsbodikins

Gads·bod·i·kins

[gadz-bod-i-kinz]
interjection Archaic.
(a euphemistic form of God's body, used as a mild oath.)
Also, Oddsbodikins, Odsbodikins, Odsbodkins.


Origin:
1670–80; Gad + 's1 + bodikin (body + -kin) + -s1

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Gadsbodikins is always a great word to know.
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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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