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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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
There was little weed, but yesterday and to-day the sea appeared to be full of tunnies.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Julius E. Olson
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
Cabotto calls these lands Terra de Bacallaos, because the neighbouring waters swarm with fish similar to tunnies, which the natives call by this name.
From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by Francis Augustus MacNutt
But do you think it is quite sportsmanlike to pray that many tunnies may be killed?” p.
From Diversions in Sicily by Henry Festing Jones
