mackerel

Etymology 1
From, , , , , , , , , , from. Further origin unknown.

Noun

 * 1) Certain smaller edible fish, principally  and Spanish mackerel in family, often speckled,
 * 2) typically  in the British isles.
 * 3) * 1982,, , Chapter5, 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.”
 * A, any fish of tribe ( spp.,  spp.)
 * 1) Certain other similar small fish in families, , and.
 * 1) * 1982,, , Chapter5, 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.”
 * A, any fish of tribe ( spp.,  spp.)
 * 1) Certain other similar small fish in families, , and.

Translations

 * Abenaki: makelo
 * Ainu: サバ
 * Arabic: إِسْقُمَرِيّ, مَاكْرِيل
 * Moroccan Arabic: كبايلا
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Basque: berdel
 * Belarusian: ску́мбрыя
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 鯖魚
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: briel
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: skombro
 * Estonian: makrell
 * Faroese: makrelur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, macareu, , , , torniño,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σκόμβρος
 * Greenlandic: avaleraasartooq, makreli
 * Hebrew: מקרל
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:, murlas, maicréal
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: скумбрия
 * Konkani: बांगडो
 * Korean:
 * Ladino: kolyos
 * Latin: scomber
 * Latvian: skumbrija, makrele
 * Lithuanian: skumbrė
 * Luxembourgish: Makréil
 * Macedonian: скуша
 * Malay: tenggiri
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: ᡶᡠᠰᡝᠯᡳ
 * Manx: breck marrey
 * Maori: tawatawa, tewetewe
 * Mokilese: poadihdi
 * Norman: maqu'sé, maqu'thé
 * Northern Sami:
 * Norwegian: makrell
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:, خالمخالی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: rionnach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ску̏ша
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: stummu
 * Slovak: makrela
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ску́мбрія, макре́ль
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yoruba: ẹja aláràn-án, ẹja mọ́ńkẹ̀rẹ̀

Etymology 2
From, , from , from , (> ). See also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A pimp; also, a bawd.
 * 2) * 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
 * 1) * 1980, The Police Journal, Volume 53 (page 257) 10.1177/0032258X8005300305 (also available at Google books)
 * NETTING MACKEREL: THE PIMP DETAIL
 * 1) * 2006, Paul Crowley, Message-ID:  in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
 * 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.
 * 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.