maquereau

• IPA^(key): /ma.kʁo/

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Inherited from Middle French macquereau, maquereau, maquerel, from Old French maquerel, of uncertain origin.

maquereau m (plural maquereaux)

1. mackerel

• groseille à maquereau (“gooseberry”)

Inherited from Middle French macquereau, maquereau, maqueriau, from Old French makerele, maquereau, from Middle Dutch makelaer, makelare (“broker”), itself from Old Frisian mek (“to marry”), from maken (“to make”), from Proto-West Germanic *makōn.

maquereau m (plural maquereaux, feminine maquerelle)

1. (colloquial) pimp

   Synonyms: mac, proxénète

• → Catalan: macarró
  • → Spanish: macarra
• → Spanish: macró
• Haitian Creole: makrèl
• → Portuguese: macrô
• → Serbo-Croatian: makro
• → Vietnamese: ma cô

• “maquereau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French maquereau.

maquereau m (plural maquereaus)

1. (Jersey) pimp