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"Odds bodkins" nghĩa là gì?
19 Jun, 2021
"Odds bodkins" = (nghĩa cổ) thân thể của Chúa -> câu bày tỏ cảm xúc bất ngờ, ngạc nhiên.
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If only he'd thrown in a 'Gadzooks!' or 'Odds bodkins!' — though there's time for that as the drama continues tonight and tomorrow. Practically every line in this Tudor costume melodrama (kịch melo) was a shocker, lurching from fake Shakespeare to millennial (thế hệ trẻ) slang.
McWhorter starts with a history of swearing. "Swearing" was not bad if done as an act of fealty (trung thành) or faith (niềm tin). "I swear loyalty" or, even today in court, "I swear to tell the truth". He goes into the origin of soft swear words such as zounds, gadzooks, or odds bodkins, as euphemisms for more serious violations of politeness.
Odds Bodkins! Didn't we fight a revolution to rid ourselves of thrones, crowns and scepters (quyền trượng)? You'd never know it, the way some of us seem to be continually feeling for that lost royalty as if it were a missing tooth.
Language evolves, and so do the words we consider taboo. If you don't believe that, walk into a bar and shout, "Odds bodkins, this place is crowded!" In the Middle Ages that might've gotten you tossed out (tống cổ) on your arse. Now bar patrons would just look up and say, "What's wrong with that f&*$nut?"
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