marrow
See also: Marrow
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English mary, marow, marowe, marowȝ, from Old English mearg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, *mazgaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos. Compare West Frisian moarch, Dutch merg, German Mark, Swedish märg, Icelandic mergur, and also Russian мозг (mozg, “brain”), Persian مغز (“mæγz: brain”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ærəʊ
Noun
marrow (countable and uncountable, plural marrows)
- (uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
- Template:RQ:Vance Nobody
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
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- (countable) A kind of vegetable like a large courgette/zucchini or squash.
- 1847, Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk, "Steam-Boat Voyage to Barbados", Bentley's Miscellany, Vol XXII, London: Richard Bentley, p.37:
- The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetable marrow, were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers.
- 1847, Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk, "Steam-Boat Voyage to Barbados", Bentley's Miscellany, Vol XXII, London: Richard Bentley, p.37:
- The pith of certain plants.
- The essence; the best part.
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- It takes from our achievements […] / The pith and marrow of our attribute.
- (Can we date this quote by Thomas Tusser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Chopping and changing I cannot commend, / With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end.
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The inner meaning or purpose.
- (medicine, colloquial) Bone marrow biopsy.
- This patient will have a marrow today.
- (obsolete) Semen.
- 1601–1608, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, act ii, scene 3
- Parolles: He wears his honour in a box, unseen / That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, / Spending his manly marrow in her arms / Of Mars’s fiery steed.
- 1601–1608, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, act ii, scene 3
Synonyms
- (the essence; the best part): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
substance inside bones
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kind of vegetable
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Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Noun
marrow (plural marrows)
- (Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.
- Cheers marrow!
- (Scotland or archaic) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.
- c. 1620 anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- The moon’s my constant Mistresse
& the lowlie owle my morrowe.
The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make
mee musicke to my sorrowe.
- The moon’s my constant Mistresse
- c. 1620 anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
Derived terms
References
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [1]
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