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tunny

[ tuhn-ee ]

noun

, Chiefly British.
, plural (especially collectively) tun·ny, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) tun·nies.


tunny

/ ˈtʌnɪ /

noun

  1. another name for tuna 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tunny1

1520–30; by apocope < Medieval Latin tunnīna false tunny, noun use of feminine of tunnīnus like a tunny, equivalent to tunn ( us ) tunny (variant of Latin thynnus < Greek thýnnos ) + -īnus -ine 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tunny1

C16: from Old French thon , from Old Provençal ton , from Latin thunnus , from Greek
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Example Sentences

Shoals of tunny-fish, (fish four and five feet long, and belonging to the dolphin tribe,) were seen tumbling about the ship.

His first idea is to seek wealth, so he builds a great boat and captures twelve hundred tunny fish.

You may pay twopence-halfpenny a pound for it, and charge me half-a-crown, if you like, but I mean to taste that tunny!

I beg your pardon, you were describing how you caught a tunny?

Tunny and other fish were plentiful in the sea, and the rivers afforded large eels.

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