different between mackerel vs sardines

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.

English

Etymology

The game name refers to sardines tightly packed in a can.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?nz

Noun

sardines

1. plural of sardine
2. (uncountable) A children's game in which the players hide together, lying side by side.

Anagrams

• aridness

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /s???di.n?s/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /s?r?di.n?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sa??di.nes/

Noun

sardines

1. plural of sardina

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

sardines

1. plural of sardine

French

Noun

sardines f

1. plural of sardine