mackerel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mackerell, macrell, macrelle, makarell, makerel, makerell, makerelle, makrel, makrell, makyrelle, from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: mackerel
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mackerels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.
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.
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.
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.”
Waitrose has become the first UK supermarket to suspend the sale of mackerel because of overfishing and will start pointing customers toward herring and other species. The Marine Conservation Society warned last year that stocks were at breaking point owing to overfishing, and it downgraded mackerel from a three to a four on its five-point Good Fish Guide sustainability scale. Kerry Lyne of the MCS praised Waitrose’s move, saying: “To keep favourites like mackerel on the menu, we need support right across the supply chain with fishing kept within sustainable limits.” A University of East Anglia study published in January urged supermarkets to encourage customers to expand their fish diet to include more environmentally friendly and locally caught fish, such as herring and sardines. Last September, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) recommended that mackerel fishing in the north-east Atlantic be cut by 70% to help replenish numbers to a sustainable level after overexploitation. […] In December, the UK agreed to reduce mackerel fishing by 48%, well short of the cut the ICES had called for. […] The latest statistics show that from May, the mackerel catch in the northeast Atlantic will no longer meet the requirements set out by the Sustainable Seafood Coalition. Tagholm called for administrative change: “The responsibility cannot lie entirely with retailers or shoppers. It is the government that sets catch limits, and the government that has failed, year after year, to devise a cogent strategy to end overfishing once and for all. Now, with staple fish like cod and mackerel on the brink of disaster, it must act immediately.” Waitrose will promote the sale of herring, sardines and sea bass as sustainable and nutritious alternatives to mackerel.
gloss: A true mackerel, any fish of tribe Scombrini (Scomber spp., Rastrelliger spp.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Certain other similar small fish in families Carangidae, Gempylidae, and Hexagrammidae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: a mackerel sky
MACKEREL CLOUDS.- Mackerel scales and mares' tails / Make lofty ships carry low sails.
Mackerel clouds in sky, Expect more wet than dry. A mackerel sky, Not twenty-four hours dry.
Mackerel in the sky, three days dry. […] Mackerel sky, mackerel sky - never long wet, never long dry.
Related words: scombral
scombroid
tuna
Derived words: Atka mackerel
Atlantic mackerel
butterfly mackerel
cero mackerel
chub mackerel
cold as a mackerel
common mackerel
dead as a mackerel
double-lined mackerel
Great Mackerel Beach
holy mackerel
horse mackerel
jack mackerel
king mackerel
mackerel bird
mackerel breeze
mackerel cock
mackereler
mackerel gale
mackerel gull
mackerel icefish
mackerelled
mackerelling
mackerelly
mackerel midge
mackerel mint
mackerel pike
mackerel-pike
mackerel scad
mackerel shad
mackerel shark
mackerel sky
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails
mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
mackerel snapper
mackerel tuna
snake mackerel
Spanish mackerel
stink like a mackerel
stink like a mackerel in the moonlight
stink like a mackerel in the sun
throw a sprat to catch a mackerel
tinker mackerel
yellow mackerel
Translations:
lang: Abenaki
word: makelo
lang: Ainu
word: サバ
roman: saba
lang: Albanian
word: skumbri
lang: Arabic
word: إِسْقُمَرِيّ
roman: ʔisqumariyy
lang: Arabic
word: مَاكْرِيل
roman: mākrīl
lang: Arabic
word: كبايلا
roman: kabāyla
lang: Armenian
word: թյունիկ
roman: tʻyunik
lang: Armenian
word: սկումբրիա
roman: skumbria
lang: Asturian
word: xarda
lang: Basque
word: berdel
lang: Belarusian
word: ску́мбрыя
roman: skúmbryja
lang: Bulgarian
word: скумри́я
roman: skumríja
lang: Catalan
word: verat
lang: Catalan
word: cavalla
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 鯖魚 /鲭鱼
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鯖魚 /鲭鱼
roman: qīngyú
lang: Cornish
word: briel
lang: Czech
word: makrela
lang: Danish
word: makrel
lang: Dutch
word: makreel
lang: Esperanto
word: skombro
lang: Estonian
word: makrell
lang: Faroese
word: makrelur
lang: Finnish
word: makrilli
lang: French
word: maquereau
lang: Galician
word: xarda
lang: Galician
word: cabala
lang: German
word: Makrele
lang: Greek
word: σκουμπρί
roman: skoumprí
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σκόμβρος
roman: skómbros
lang: Greenlandic
word: avaleraasartooq
lang: Greenlandic
word: makreli
lang: Hebrew
word: מקרל
roman: makarél
lang: Hungarian
word: makréla
lang: Icelandic
word: makríll
lang: Ido
word: makrelo
lang: Indonesian
word: tenggiri
lang: Indonesian
word: kembung
lang: Irish
word: ronnach
lang: Irish
word: murlas
lang: Irish
word: maicréal
lang: Italian
word: sgombro
lang: Italian
word: sgombero
lang: Japanese
word: 鯖
roman: saba
lang: Japanese
word: サバ
roman: saba
lang: Kazakh
word: скумбрия
roman: skumbriä
lang: Konkani
word: बांगडो
roman: bāṅgḍo
lang: Korean
word: 고등어
roman: godeung'eo
lang: Ladino
word: kolyos
lang: Latin
word: scomber
lang: Latvian
word: skumbrija
lang: Latvian
word: makrele
lang: Lithuanian
word: skumbrė
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Makréil
lang: Macedonian
word: скуша
roman: skuša
lang: Malay
word: tenggiri
lang: Malayalam
word: അയല
roman: ayala
lang: Manchu
word: ᡶᡠᠰᡝᠯᡳ
roman: fuseli
lang: Manx
word: breck marrey
lang: Māori
word: tawatawa
lang: Māori
word: tewetewe
lang: Mokilese
word: poadihdi
lang: Norman
word: maqu'sé
lang: Norman
word: maqu'thé
lang: Norwegian
word: makrell
lang: Occitan
word: vairat
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: скуша
roman: skuša
lang: Persian
word: اسقومری
roman: esqumri
lang: Persian
word: خالمخالی
roman: xâlmaxâli
lang: Polish
word: makrela
lang: Portuguese
word: cavala
lang: Romanian
word: macrou
lang: Russian
word: ску́мбрия
roman: skúmbrija
lang: Russian
word: макре́ль
roman: makrélʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: rionnach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ску̏ша
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: skȕša
lang: Sicilian
word: stummu
lang: Slovak
word: makrela
lang: Slovene
word: skuša
lang: Spanish
word: caballa
lang: Swedish
word: makrill
lang: Turkish
word: uskumru
lang: Ukrainian
word: ску́мбрія
roman: skúmbrija
lang: Ukrainian
word: макре́ль
roman: makrélʹ
lang: Vietnamese
word: cá thu
lang: Welsh
word: macrell
lang: Yoruba
word: ẹja aláràn-án
lang: Yoruba
word: ẹja mọ́ńkẹ̀rẹ̀