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Brewer's: Od's
or Odd's, used in oaths; as–
Odd's bodikins! or Odsbody!
means “God's body,” of course referring to incarnate Deity.
Od's heart!
God's heart.
Od's pittikins!
God's pity.
Od's plessed will!
See Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 1.
Od rotem!
See Drat.
Od-zounds!
God's wounds.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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