English Explanatory Dictionary

mackerel

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,
  2. Typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.
  3. A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)
  4. Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.
  5. A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.
noun
  1. A pimp; also, a bawd.

Pronunciation

/ˈmæk(ə)ɹəl/ En-us-mackerel.ogg

Word forms

mackerel mackerels

Etymology

From Middle English mackerell, macrell, macrelle, makarell, makerel, makerell, makerelle, makrel, makrell, makyrelle, from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.

Related words

scombral scombroid tuna

Derived words

Atka mackerel Atlantic mackerel butterfly mackerel cero mackerel chub mackerel cold as a mackerel common mackerel dead as a mackerel double-lined mackerel Great Mackerel Beach holy mackerel horse mackerel jack mackerel king mackerel mackerel bird mackerel breeze mackerel cock mackereler mackerel gale mackerel gull mackerel icefish mackerelled mackerelling mackerelly mackerel midge mackerel mint mackerel pike mackerel-pike mackerel scad mackerel shad mackerel shark mackerel sky mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails mackerel snapper mackerel tuna snake mackerel Spanish mackerel stink like a mackerel stink like a mackerel in the moonlight stink like a mackerel in the sun throw a sprat to catch a mackerel tinker mackerel yellow mackerel

Translations

Abenaki: makelo Ainu: サバ Albanian: skumbri Arabic: إِسْقُمَرِيّ Arabic: مَاكْرِيل Arabic: كبايلا Armenian: թյունիկ Armenian: սկումբրիա Asturian: xarda Basque: berdel Belarusian: ску́мбрыя Bulgarian: скумри́я Catalan: verat Catalan: cavalla Chinese Cantonese: 鯖魚 /鲭鱼 Chinese Mandarin: 鯖魚 /鲭鱼 Cornish: briel Czech: makrela Danish: makrel Dutch: makreel Esperanto: skombro Estonian: makrell Faroese: makrelur Finnish: makrilli French: maquereau Galician: xarda Galician: cabala German: Makrele Greek: σκουμπρί Ancient Greek: σκόμβρος Greenlandic: avaleraasartooq Greenlandic: makreli Hebrew: מקרל Hungarian: makréla Icelandic: makríll Ido: makrelo Indonesian: tenggiri Indonesian: kembung Irish: ronnach Irish: murlas Irish: maicréal Italian: sgombro Italian: sgombero Japanese: 鯖 Japanese: サバ Kazakh: скумбрия Konkani: बांगडो Korean: 고등어 Ladino: kolyos Latin: scomber Latvian: skumbrija Latvian: makrele
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