Green’s Dictionary of Slang

marrow n.

[cit. 1719 presumably double entendre; note Shakespearian use of (manly) marrow, semen or fig. ‘spunk’]

1. (also marrow fat, — juice) semen; also attrib.

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[UK]Marston ‘Difficile est Satyram non Scribere’ Scourge of Villanie I C1: Pert Gallus, slilie slippes along, to wage / Tilting incounters, with some spurious seede / Of marrow pies, and yawning Oystars breede. O damn’d!
[UK]Shakespeare All’s Well That Ends Well II iii: He wears his honour in a box unseen, That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, Spending his manly marrow in her arms.
[UK]Dekker Newes from Graues-end (1925) 99: His Ryoys rauisht, all his pleasures, His marrow wasted with his treasure, His painted harlots.
F. Béroalde de Verville Moyen de Parvenir 43: The feminine rosebud which draws marrow out of one’s bones without breaking ’em.
[UK]Davies of Hereford Wits Bedlam 215: [The] pleasure’s [i.e. of sex] but a moment ... And ... it wasts the Marrow.
Mr Henry Martin His Speech 4: Bawdy houses ... have almost gleaned me dry of money, of marrow, and almost frenchyfied my tongue, that I can scarce speake out my speech.
[UK]Wandring Whore II 12: As W— the Butchers son in the Stocks did Honor Brooks the rammish Scotch whore at D— between her Legs, not forgetting that Ursula had half a crown for showing her Twit-twat there, and half a crown for stroaking the marrow out of a mans Gristle.
[UK]W.P. Wit’s Academy II 96: [A] young Miss who ... sucks the Marrow, and I pick the Bone.
[UK] ‘From Twelve Years Old I Oft Have Been Told’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 91: But by the Rowling and Trowling about, / How kindly and sweetly the Marrow flew out / Of his Pudding.
[UK]Wandering Spy XV 59: I can draw Marrow out of a Bone, without so much as breaking or cracking it.
[UK] in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy III 73: How kindly and sweetly the Marrow flew out Of his Pudding.
[UK] ‘Pervigilium Veneris’ in Pleasures of Coition xxiv: Thus, Pleasure’s Fountain once exhausted, / From which the vital Marrow flow’d.
‘Bawd’ [poem] 9: Young men for stallions may be hir’d away, And melt their marrow for some widow’s pay.
[UK]Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 29: Th’ immortal pleasure ran thro’ all my frame, / Thro’ all my bones and inward marrow came , / That meted and ran down.
[UK]‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 131: By the rolling and throwling about, / How kindly and sweetly the marrow flew out / Of his pudding.
[UK]Cockchafer 37: [song title] ‘John Marrow’s Pudding’ [Ibid.] 39: At first, I thought it would ne’er burst, I own, / For it seem’d quite as hard as gristle or bone, / But soon, by rolling and trolling about, / How kindly and sweetly the marrow flew out / Of his pudding!
[UK]A. Cairene Sixfold Sensuality 25: They both discharged their superfluous marrow fat together.
[UK]A. Cairene Sixfold Sensuality 27: This in flated the Abbé’s dolly so much that he nearly wasted some precious marrow juice in his cassock.

2. (US black) the penis.

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[US]Kanye West ‘Slow Jamz’ 🎵 I ain’t no freak so you got to pull my marrow.

In compounds

marrow-bone (n.)

the penis.

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[UK]J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 37: For women then, for all their freaks, / Lov’d bellies better than their backs; / [...] / Else Marrow-bones and Brisket-beef / Had been poor toyes for Pluto’s Wife .