megrim

By 1781, the French word migraine entered the English language as the accepted medical term, replacing older words such as megrim .

Challenges remain in some areas, however, with tight limits imposed in the Celtic Sea to allow the recovery of haddock and megrim.

But better news for other species resulted in proposals to sharply increase some catch quotas, including hake, herring, plaice and megrim.

Elizabeth Stevenson's family firm runs a fleet of boats out of Newlyn, Cornwall and exports most of her catch of turbot, monkfish, megrim and brill to France and Spain.

I'd have called it a kind of a megrim myself, and, as I say, I certainly perceived a sort of charnel-'ouse smell in the room I'm in.