tunny
noun
tuna.
tunnies
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pluralof tunny.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The lower holds four dishes, such as sucking forest-boars, venison, hares, tunnies, sturgeons, which you will find within; the upper three, eight each, but diminutive.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
Sebastian Cabot himself named these lands Baccalaos, because he found in the seas thereabout such multitudes of certain large fishes like tunnies, called baccalaos by the natives, that they sometimes stayed his ships.
And Archestratus says— Around the sacred and the spacious isle Of Samos you may see large tunnies caught.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Every spring shall be coming always the tunnies, but if to don’t bless the sea, then to be coming few tunnies; if to bless the sea then to be coming plenty many tunnies.”
From Diversions in Sicily by Henry Festing Jones
A. Listen then; "I start with onions, and with tunnies end."
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
