Meanings
interjection
alternative ods-bobs
- obsoleteExpressing surprise, emotion etc.
“[F]or odds-bobs, if you do not pay me, he will return, and be as good as his word.”
1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.4
Origin
Perhaps a euphemistic alteration of God's body.
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