subs. (sporting).—Amongst sporting men, a person who takes his turn between the sheets on alternate nights, when an hotel has twice as many visitors as it can comfortably lodge; as, for instance, during a race-week: a transferred sense from next entry.
TO RIDE (or SIT) BODKIN, phr. (common).—To take a place and be wedged in between other persons when the accommodation is intended for two only.
1638. FORD, The Fancies Chaste and Noble, IV., i. (1811), 186. Where but two lie in a bed, you must be BODKIN, bitch-baby, must ye?
1798. Loves of the Triangles, 182.
| While the pressed BODKIN, punched and squeezed to death, | |
| Sweats in the midmost place, and scolds, and pants for breath. |
1848. THACKERAY, The Book of Snobs, xxxiv. The writer supposes Aubrey to come to town in post-chaise and pair, sitting BODKIN probably between his wife and sister.
