mackerel

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled, countable,uncountable
  2. A pimp; also, a bawd. obsolete
    — 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 […]
  3. Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,; Typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles. countable,uncountable
    — […] you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.
  4. A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.) countable,uncountable
  5. Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae. countable,uncountable
  6. A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them. attributive,countable,uncountable
    — a mackerel sky

词形变化

mackerel plural mackerels plural mackerels plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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
相关词
scombral scombroid tuna

词源

词源 1
From Middle English mackerell, macrell, macrelle, makarell, makerel, makerell, makerelle, makrel, makrell, makyrelle, from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.
词源 2
From Middle English makerel, maquerel, from Old French maquerel, from Middle Dutch makelare, makelaer (“broker”) (> makelaar (“broker, peddler”)). See also French maquereau.
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