adjective
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poetic relating to or containing many fishes
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having or resembling a fin or fins
Etymology
Origin of finny
Example Sentences
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“Dory was so finny that the other fish almost dried themselves laughing.”
From Washington Post
In 1957, when G.M.'s committees might have been concerned with the mounting sales of compacts, they decided instead that the wave of the future lay in Chrysler's finny "Forward Look" cars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Franco's favorite finny prey is salmon, but this was far from his first whale.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her gift, from Muscleman Mickey Hargitay: a finny new pink Cadillac.
From Time Magazine Archive
These fish have the air of bantam cocks, and with their sharp, prickly fins and spines, and scaly sides, must be ugly customers in a hand to hand encounter with other finny warriors.
From Wake-Robin by Burroughs, John
Chrysler will be finnier than ever, with tails that zoom up, out and rearward; Cadillac's fins will be higher, the car itself lower and slightly wider.
From Time Magazine Archive
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