different between mackerel vs snoek

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

Alternative forms

• snook

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans snoek, from Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec. Some sense come from or are influenced by Dutch zeesnoek (“barracuda”, literally “sea pike”), a word that Van Riebeeck applied to the Thyrsites atun.

Noun

snoek

1. (South Africa) An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
   • 2003, Oceanographic Literature Review, Volume 50, Issues 1-2600, page 348,

     Snoek (Thyrsites atun) is a valuable commercial species and an important predator of small pelagic fishes in the Benguela ecosystem. The South African population attains 50% sexual maturity at a fork length of ca.73.0 cm (3 years). Spawning occurs offshore during winter-spring, along the shelf break (150-400 m) of the western Agulhas Bank and the South African west coast

   • 2004, Calvin Trillin, The strange attraction of snoek, The New Yorker, Volume 80, page lxxxvi,

     My friend Jeffrey Jowell, who grew up in Cape Town, has lived away from South Africa for more than forty years, yearning for snoek the entire time. He thinks about fried snoek and grilled snoek and dried snoek and snoek made into pâté. He may miss smoked snoek most of all. Any mention of snoek—a long, bony fish that looks like a second cousin of a barracuda—triggers memories in Jeffrey of his childhood.

   • 2005, Alicia Wilkinson, Complete South African Fish & Seafood Cookbook, page 58,

     Snoek need not be scaled. The scales are very fine and usually slip off during handling.

2. (South Africa, Natal) The queen mackerel, Scomberomorus lineolatus.
3. (South Africa, Transkei) Any of several species of barracuda.

Synonyms

• barracouta (Australian)

Derived terms

• smoor snoek

References

1978: A dictionary of South African English. Ed. Jean Branford. Oxford.

Anagrams

• Kones, Nosek, Senko, Snoke, soken

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snuk/

Noun

snoek (plural snoeke)

1. snoek, mackerel, Thyrsites atun

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch snoec, from Proto-Germanic *sn?k?a-, a thematic o-grade of *snakan? (“to crawl around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snuk/
• Hyphenation: snoek
• Rhymes: -uk

Noun

snoek m (plural snoeken, diminutive snoekje n)

1. pike (any fish of the genus Esox)
2. pike, Northern pike, Esox lucius

   Synonym: gewone snoek

Derived terms

• gewone snoek
• snoekachtig
• snoekbaars
• snoekmakreel
• zeesnoek

References