Green’s Dictionary of Slang

what’s the difference?

1835		Inquirer & Anchor 11 July 120/2: What odds will it make what meeting I go to? I enjoy myself about as well at one as another.
1841		Dickens Old Curiosity Shop (1999) 23: What is the odds so long as the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 148/2: Come on, what’s the odds [...] We’ll be off to-morrow, so let’s have a time while we’re here.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1880		Trollope Duke’s Children (1954) 138: ‘If they do send me down, what’s the odds?’ said the younger brother, who was not quite as sober as he might have been.
1894		S. Crane in N.Y. Press 20 Oct. in Stallman (1966) 82: Go ahead. What’s the odds?
1903		Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Dec. 36/2: Come on, [...] never mind the old ’oppers. Wot odds about them? Yer’ve got to stop in the kitching, mind that, an’ I’m goin’ to catch the brown pony and fetch the doctor.
1905		H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 146: What’s the odds?
1927		H.C. Witwer Classics in Sl. 10: What’s the odds does it make to me when you take into the consideration that I’ve never read none of that stuff in my life.
1957		G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 186: I’m taking the place of Gritto, ha-ha-ha! What’s the odds, so long as you’re happy?