A variant or alternative spelling of bodkin; a small pointed tool or a dagger.
Variant of 'bodkin,' which may derive from Irish 'bodóg' or Middle English terms. The spelling variation reflects dialectal differences in English speech and early standardization of spelling.
Spelling variants like 'bodikin' and 'bodkin' show that modern standardized spelling is actually quite new—for centuries people spelled words phonetically based on their accent, so the same tool had many names depending on where you lived.
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