different between herring vs mackerel

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English hering, from Old English h?ring, from Proto-West Germanic *h?ring (“herring”), further etymology unknown. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *h?r? (“hair”) +? -ing, due to the similarity of their fine bones to hair. Cognate with Scots hering, haring (“herring”), Saterland Frisian Hiering, Häiring (“herring”), West Frisian hjerring (“herring”), Dutch haring (“herring”), German Low German Hereng, Hering (“herring”), German Hering (“herring”). French hareng, Norman ?éren, Latin haringus, etc. are borrowings from Germanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

herring (plural herrings or herring)

1. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
2. Fish in the family Clupeidae.
3. Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

Derived terms

• Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)
• Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras)
• English herring (Clupea harengus)
• herringbone
• longfin herring (Pristigasteridae)
• matjes herring
• Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)
• red herring
• round herring (Dussumieriidae)
• thread herring (Opisthonema)
• wolf herring (Chirocentridae)

Translations

See also

• buckling
• kipper
• stockfish

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæk??l/
• Hyphenation: mack?e?rel

Etymology 1

Middle English, from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.

Noun

mackerel (plural mackerel or mackerels)

1. An edible fish of the family Scombridae, often speckled.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• scombral
• tuna

References

• mackerel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scombridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Scombridae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French maquerel, from Middle Dutch makelare, makelaer (“broker”) (> makelaar (“broker, peddler”)). See also French maquereau.

Noun

mackerel (plural mackerels)

1. (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

   • 2006, Paul Crowley, Message-ID: <[email protected]> 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.