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As nouns the difference between pimp and mackerel ... is that pimp is a person who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a ... Read More

由 R Beatty Jr 著作 · 1980 — In French the word for pimp ismaquereau, meaning mackerel; and up to a couple of centuries ago, English also used mackerel to mean. pimp. Some think​ ... Read More

The term mackerel is derived from Old French and may have originally meant either marked, spotted or pimp, procurer. The latter connection is not ... Read More

2012年7月18日 — Modern French has two words spelled and pronounced alike: maquereau “​mackerel” and maquereau “pimp” or “matchmaker,” or ( ... Read More

2012年1月5日 — “Mackerel,” it says, meant two things back in the 14th century: the fish, of course, but also pimp. Why? There are two possible reasons: 1. Read More

1300, from Old French maquerel mackerel (Modern French maquereau), of unknown origin but apparently identical with Old French maquerel pimp, procurer, ... Read More

In French the word for pimp ismaquereau, meaning mackerel; and up to a couple of centuries ago, English also used mackerel to mean. pimp. Some think​ ... Read More

The mackerel is always an abundant fish because it grows quite quickly, but mainly ... The current French maquereau also means pimp” and it was this second ... Read More

2008年10月2日 — The word mackerel, now largely out of use, has meant prostitute, madam and pimp. That last meaning lives on in the variation mack daddy, ... Read More

- In another instance of translation, if a less instructive one, Davidson notes that “[t​]he French name maquereau also means pimp, no doubt in allusion to the ... Read More