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
Fishermen in modern, mechanized trawlers can easily draw bottom fish off the ocean floor with a kind of vacuum cleaner or haul in whole finny schools in a single huge seine net.
From Time Magazine Archive
It eschews the finny ostentation of the '50s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its fins got less finny and more leggy, and its pale, puffy face came to resemble Alfred Hitchcock's.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fish must have been pretty hungry in that Canadian lake, or else the “bought” lure that Phil had fetched along with him had some magical properties about it to attract the finny denizens.
From Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds by Silas K. Boone
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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