mackerel
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈmækərəl/
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- For dinner, we enjoyed grilled mackerel served with a lemon garlic sauce.
- salmon and mackerel
- sardines and mackerel
- Mackerel and herring
Examples
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Unsold mangos and pineapples were peeled, their sweet fragrance mixing with the smell of canned mackerel and dried squid.
Fiction book (1998) -
Sources of omega-3 fatty acids include salmon, tuna, halibut, sardines, mackerel, and others.
Blog text (1) -
I had the market send over some salt mackerel for you.
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"And if Happy Hour's still on, could you maybe find us a little more mackerel?"
Fiction book (1995) -
You're partial to a nice bit of mackerel, aren't you, Steve?
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Smoked mackerel and egg?
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gotta try new stuff. Starting off grilled mackerel with dill sauce and potato chips on top.
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Afterward, he took us to an Irish supper where they had corned beef, cabbage, and soused mackerel.
Fiction book (1990) -
Inhaling the pungent smell of pickles and smoked mackerel, I was reminded of my grandmother and home and had to bite down hard on my lower lip to keep from crying.
Fiction book (2000) -
Imagine me in the kitchen eating horseradish, cranberry jam, pistachio ice cream, Swiss gruyere, Jell-O powder, and mackerel from a tin.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
Meat from a water animal that people cook and eat
60
1.3
A small oily fish often sold in cans and eaten
52
1.4
A small silver fish often eaten smoked, salted, or pickled
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2.8
A small silvery fish often packed in salt and used to add a strong taste to food
1
6.1
A large fish with a long pointed nose eaten as food and often caught for sport
1
7.4
A medium-sized sea fish that people often eat, like a small tuna
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6.2
A small fish found in oceans around the world that people often eat grilled or canned
A fish with a green-blue back and dark stripes that lives in northern Atlantic waters and is eaten
Meat from a large sea fish eaten as food
A large mackerel-like fish with a long pointed snout eaten and caught for sport along the Atlantic coast
A large mackerel from warm Atlantic coastal waters of the United States that people eat
A small fish from the Pacific coast that people eat
A small silvery sea fish often eaten or used as bait
A small silvery fish that lives along the western Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Brazil
A small silvery fish found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans often eaten as food
A mackerel fish that people keep longer and cook near burning wood to add taste
A small fatty fish like a sardine often smoked or canned
A small fish in the northern Atlantic that lives in large groups and people eat
A fish whose dried, flaked meat is used in Japanese cooking
Idioms
Give something small to get something much bigger later
- Informal
Have a very strong smell like old fish or seem clearly suspicious
Compounds
- Specialized
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6.1
A large fish with a long pointed nose eaten as food and often caught for sport
1
6.2
A small fish found in oceans around the world that people often eat grilled or canned
A fish with a green-blue back and dark stripes that lives in northern Atlantic waters and is eaten
- Specialized
A large, fast shark with a pointed snout that swims and hunts in open ocean
- Specialized
A small silvery fish that lives along the western Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Brazil
A small silvery fish found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans often eaten as food
How Oily
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word mackerel for the fish flesh comes from the same old French maquerel, the name of the fish. One helpful way to remember it is to think of how fishermen used the fish to 'attract' larger ones, so mackerel now names the oily fish we eat.