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bod|bɒd|
Slang abbrev. of body n. in various senses; esp. a person. (In Sc. quots. 1788 and 1813, perh. abbrev. of bodach.)
1788J. Macaulay Poems 143 While aulder bods were babees birling, We took our slide. 1813E. Picken Poems II. 131 Sae he made a long blaw about graces, an' gods, Like Vulcan, an' Bachus, an' ither sic bods. 1933R. Strachey Many Happy Returns i. 33 The Red, the White and the Blue is unfurled and covers the dead bod, the corpse of a grocer given for England. 1953‘N. Shute’ In Wet vi. 187 The rest go to the camp with the R.A.A.F. bods. 1954C. P. Snow New Men xxii. 151 ‘Bods’ meant bodies, people, any kind of staff: scientists were bods, so were floor cleaners. 1955P. Sharp in Chambers & Landreth Called Up iii. 73 To join a station you have to get these cards signed by odd bods all over the place. 1966Crescendo Aug. 8/1 The show-tune formula is quite simple—I know dozens of bods who make a living using it. |