int. Obs. [var. of EGAD, egod, AGAD, q.v.] Used as a mild oath.
1733. Fielding, Don Quix., I. viii. ’Ecod! it runs in my head.
1777. Sheridan, Trip Scarb., III. iv. It’s well I have a husband acoming, or ecod I’d marry the baker.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., xiv. 371. Ecod, when I say to him….
