Green’s Dictionary of Slang

the penis.

1623		Massinger Bondman II ii: Some great women [...] some that are hungrie Draw on their shoomakers, and take a fall From such as mend Mats in their Galleries; Or when a Taylor settles a Petticoate on, Take measure of his Bodkin.
1640		T. Rawlins Rebellion I i: Then must I use my Bodkin ’twill never please else [...] Wee Taylors are the men [...] Ladies cannot live without.
1652		Mercurius Democritus 22-29 Dec. 299: [He] run his bodkin into her Ilet-hole which made her cry All hid, having not the least Power to resist him .
1658		Mennis & Smith ‘The Bursse of Reformation’ Wit Restor’d (1817) 142: Then lett’s no more to the Old Exchange / There’s no good ware at all, / Their Bodkins, and their Thimbles too, / Went long since to Guild-Hall.
1674–9		‘New-Fashioned Marigold’ in Pepys Ballads (1987) IV 98: And with his piercing Bodkin then, he [i.e. ‘the nimble Taylor’] drove a subtile trade.
1684		‘The Married Estate’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 23: For a Bodkin, a Ring, or the other fine thing.
1692		‘Rampant Taylor’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 63: The tailor fancies ‘each fair Lass’ and ‘if she chance to tumble down, He’ll stick his Bodkin into her Placket’.
1707		Humours of a Coffee-House 3 Oct. 32: [He] bid her be gone, or he would run his Bodkin into her Tail.
1827		Burns ‘The Tailor’ Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 122: Her maidenhead had taen the flight [...] A tailor’s bodkin caused the flight.
1837–8		‘The Lady’s Snatchbox’ in Cuckold’s Nest 26: The tailor is not such a goose [...] Of his bodkin he’ll make good use, / When he twigs my hairy snatch box.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1976		E. Dahlberg Olive of Minerva 162: A smirk is often a deeper gash in the flesh than the blade of a bodkin.
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 190: Women sometimes use [...] the seeming diminutives of needle, bodkin, core and cory (from the Romany kori = a needle).