bodkin

Other forms of bodkin

plural

bodkins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bodkin

What does bodkin mean?

bodkin means "a dagger with a slender blade". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bodkin?

bodkin has 2 syllables: bod-kin. The stress falls on "bod". In IPA it is /ˈbɑdkɪn/.

What is another word for bodkin?

Close synonyms include poniard, threader. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bodkin a common word?

bodkin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.