int. Obs. Also codes. [app. an altered or ‘minced’ adjuration: cf. ecod! gads! ods! etc.] An obsolete ejaculation of surprise. Also † Coads-nigs.
1590. Three Lords & Ladies Lond., in Hazl., Dodsley, VI. 399. Coads, gaffer! were you not a mealman once?
1608. Middleton, Trick to Catch Old One, II. i. Coades-Nigs, I was neuer so disgrac’st, since the houre my mother whipt me.
a. 1611. Beaum. & Fl., Maid’s Trag., I. ii. Hark, hark! there, there! so, so! Codes, codes!
