mackerel
n. 鲭
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1.
Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,
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Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,
Typically Scomber scombrus in the British isles.
可数 不可数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.”
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A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)
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Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.
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A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.
定语 可数 不可数a mackerel sky
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A pimp; also, a bawd.
废旧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 […]
NETTING MACKEREL: THE PIMP DETAIL
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.
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From Middle English mackerell, macrell, macrelle, makarell, makerel, makerell, makerelle, makrel, makrell, makyrelle, from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.
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