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A mackerel is a sea fish with dark stripes, flesh, and a strong taste. People grill it, smoke it, or buy it in tins. The oil is part of why cooks like it — and why it spoils fast if it is not kept cold. Though actually, shops in different countries may put the name on more than one related fish, so the exact animal can shift a little. It is an ordinary food word, not a fancy restaurant word. The English comes from Middle English, from Old French maquerel; nobody is sure where the French word came from before that.
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組成From Middle English mackerell (and many other spellings), from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mackerelnoun詞源 1/ˈmæk(ə)ɹəl/
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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,
- […] 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.
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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.
- a mackerel sky
- MACKEREL CLOUDS.- Mackerel scales and mares' tails / Make lofty ships carry low sails.
mackerelnoun詞源 2/ˈmæk(ə)ɹəl/
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obsoleteA 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 […]
- NETTING MACKEREL: THE PIMP DETAIL
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。