mackerel
suomi-englanti sanakirjamackerel englannista suomeksi
makrilli
mackerel englanniksi
Certain smaller edible fish, principally (vern) and mackerel in family (taxfmt), often speckled,
typically (taxfmt) in the British isles.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1) you may buy land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.
(RQ:Swift Tale of a Tub)
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)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.
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1982, (w), ''(w),'' Chapter(nbs)5, in ''Zami; Sister Outsider; Undersong,'' New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1993, p.(nbs)47,https://archive.org/details/zamisisteroutsid00lord/page/n58/mode/1up?q=mackerel
- “(..) 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 (vern), any fish of tribe (taxlink) ((taxfmt) spp., (taxfmt) spp.)
Certain other similar small fish in families (taxfmt), (taxfmt), and (taxfmt).
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
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2006, Paul Crowley, Message-ID: in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare https://web.archive.org/web/20201001221812/https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare/VarPp2-HSO0/QuMJdNOwfisJ
- 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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