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語源 1

From 中期英語 mackerell, macrell, macrelle, makarell, makerel, makerell, makerelle, makrel, makrell, makyrelle, from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.

名詞

mackerel (countable and uncountable, plural mackerel or mackerels)

1. Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,
   1. typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.
      • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

        […] you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.

      • 1704, [Jonathan Swift], A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 215:

        I am living fast, to see the Time, when a Book that misses its Tide, shall be neglected, as the Moon by Day, or like Mackarel a Week after the Season.

      • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

        Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

      • 1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 6, in Lud-in-the-Mist‎, London: Millennium, published 2000, page 68:

        He sometimes pinches the maids till their arms are as many colours as a mackerel’s back.

      • 1982, Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Chapter 5, in Zami; Sister Outsider; Undersong, New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1993, p. 47,

        “ […] if you ever so much as breathe a word about my stories, Sandman’s comin’ after you the very same minute to pluck out you eyes like a mackerel for soup.”

2. A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)
3. Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.
4. (chiefly attributive, of clouds, the sky, etc) A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.

   a mackerel sky

   • 1892, George Scott, Scott's New Coast Pilot for the Lakes: Containing a Complete List of All the Lights and Light-houses, Fog Signals and Buoys on Both the American and Canadian Shores, page 277:

     MACKEREL CLOUDS.- Mackerel scales and mares' tails / Make lofty ships carry low sails.

   • 1908, The Journal of Geography, page 201:

     Mackerel clouds in sky, Expect more wet than dry. A mackerel sky, Not twenty-four hours dry.

   • 2018 May 27, Nick Wigram, Get Off of My Cloud, Nick Wigram:

     Mackerel in the sky, three days dry. […] Mackerel sky, mackerel sky - never long wet, never long dry.

派生語

派生した語

• → Sylheti: ꠝꠦꠇꠞꠥꠟ (mexrul)

参考

• scombral
• scombroid
• tuna

参照

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

語源 2

From 中期英語 makerel, maquerel, from Old French maquerel, from Middle Dutch makelare, makelaer (“broker”) (> makelaar (“broker, peddler”)). See also French maquereau.

名詞

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

   • 1981, Peter Gammond, Raymond Horricks, Big Bands, page 15:

     Hundreds of ‘night birds’ and their ‘mackerels’ and other vice-pushers were sent packing.

   • 2006, Paul Crowley, Message-ID: in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare [3]

     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:

     You can't 'work' in a legal brothel without mackerel.

   • 2012, J. Robert Janes, Mayhem‎, →ISBN:

     Perhaps, but my sources think the mackerel knew of this girl but she didn't know of him.