mackerel
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Is mackerel a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of mackerel?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (chiefly attributive, of clouds, the sky, etc) A regular pattern, similar to fish scales, of undulating small clouds with sky visible between them.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."attributivecountableuncountable
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A pimp; also, a bawd.Examples: "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"; "Hundreds of ‘night birds’ and their ‘mackerels’ and other vice-pushers were sent packing."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary