mackerel
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Middle English, from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.
Noun[edit]
mackerel (plural mackerel or mackerels)
- An edible fish of the family Scombridae, often speckled.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
Derived terms[edit]
- a sprat to catch a mackerel
- Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus)
- cero mackerel (Scomberomorus regalis)
- chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus)
- common mackerel (Scomber scombrus)
- double-lined mackerel (Grammatorcynus bilineatus)
- holy mackerel
- horse mackerel
- jack mackerel (Trachurus spp.)
- king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)
- mackerel bird (Jynx torquilla)
- mackerel cock (Puffinus puffinus)
- mackerel gale
- mackerel gull (Sterninae)
- mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari)
- mackerel midge (Gadidae spp.)
- mackerel-pike (Scomberesocidae)
- mackerel scad (Decapterus macarellus)
- mackerel shad (Decapterus spp.)
- mackerel shark (Lamniformes)
- mackerel sky
- mackerel snapper
- mackerel tuna (Euthynnus alletteratus)
- snake mackerel (Gempylus serpens)
- Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorini)
- yellow mackerel (Caranx crysos)
Translations[edit]
edible fish
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
mackerel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Scombridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Scombridae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French maquerel, from Middle Dutch makelare, makelaer (“broker”) (> makelaar (“broker, peddler”)). See also French maquereau.
Noun[edit]
mackerel (plural mackerels)
- (obsolete) A pimp; also, a bawd.
- 1483, William Caxton, Magnus Cato, quoted in James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, vol. 2, publ. by John Russell Smith (1847), page 536.
- […] nyghe his hows dwellyd a maquerel or bawde […]
- 1980, The Police Journal, Volume 53 (page 257) doi:10.1177/0032258X8005300305 (also available at Google books)
- NETTING MACKEREL: THE PIMP DETAIL
- 1981, Peter Gammond, Raymond Horricks, Big Bands, page 15:
- Hundreds of ‘night birds’ and their ‘mackerels’ and other vice-pushers were sent packing.
- 2006, Paul Crowley, Message-ID: <ciGug.11527$j7.319767@news.indigo.ie> in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare [1]
- A procurer or a pimp is a broker (or broker-between), a mackerel, or a pandar; the last is not necessarily-and, indeed, not usually-a professional.
- 2009, Jeffery Klaehn, Roadblocks to Equality, →ISBN, (page 118) [2]
- You can't 'work' in a legal brothel without mackerel.
- 2012, J. Robert Janes, Mayhem, →ISBN, [3]
- Perhaps, but my sources think the mackerel knew of this girl but she didn't know of him.
- 1483, William Caxton, Magnus Cato, quoted in James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, vol. 2, publ. by John Russell Smith (1847), page 536.
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