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pilchard

English

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?p?l.t??d/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?p?l.t??d/

Noun

pilchard (plural pilchard or pilchards)

  1. Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae.
    • 1839, John Hookham Frere (translator), The Birds, lines 76–77, in Acharnians and two other plays
      He longs occasionally for human diet,
      His old Athenian fare: pilchards, for instance.

Usage notes

The terms sardine and pilchard are not precise, and what is meant depends on the region. Often, the smaller fish are termed sardines and the greater ones pilchards.

Synonyms

  • (small fish): sardine

Translations

See also

  • pilchard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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mackerel

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.

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