subs. (old).—A wilful attenuation of ‘God’s’: common in 17th and 18th Century oaths; e.g., ODS-BODKINS = God’s little body, ODS-BOBS, ODS-FISH, etc.

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  1695.  CONGREVE, Love for Love, iii. 5. ODSBUD, Madam, have no more to say to him.

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  1705.  CENTLIVRE, The Gamester, v. 1 (1892), i. 184. ODSBUD, sir, go to Angelica, this minute. Ibid. (1718), A Bold Stroke for a Wife. Free. ODSO! ’tis Miss Anne Lovely.

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  1812.  COMBE, Dr. Syntax, Picturesque, C. xi.

        O! were she in coal-pit bottom,    And all such jades, ’OD ROT ’em!
My cares would then be over,    And I should live in clover.

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  1813.  MOORE, Twopenny Post-bag, Letter 4. These Papist dogs—hiccup—’OD ROT ’em!

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  1844.  BUCKSTONE, The Maid with the Milking Pail. Lord P. ODS FISH, why this interest in poor Lady Lucy?

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