tunny
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Origin of tunny
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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Said he: "It should have been tunny fish, which we were out to get this morning, but we caught 15 codfish instead."
From Time Magazine Archive
Merchant ships plied to and fro on the blue oceans, and fishermen hauled in brimming nets of cod and tunny, bass and mullet; the forests ran with game, and no children went hungry.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
The acharnus is mentioned by Callias in his Cyclops— A harp-fish roast, besides a ray, The head too of a tunny, And eel, some crabs, and this acharnus, The great Ænean dainty.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
But the melandrys is the largest description of tunny, as Pamphilus explains in his treatise on Names; and that when preserved is very rich and oily.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Botargo, bot-ar′go, n. a relish made of mullet or tunny roe.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The report runs that in some places, when the edict was published, the Christians did not wait for a summons, but swept up to the temples to sacrifice, like a shoal of tunnies.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by Newman, John Henry
And he says "that not only the tunnies, but that all other fish caught at Byzantium is superior to that which is caught elsewhere."
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Menander, in his Fishermen, says— And the disturbed and muddy sea which breeds The largest tunnies.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The sea was again full of small tunnies.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.
Prodicus engages him and has a conference with him on the profound question of "whether the tunnies or the mullets are better to-day, or will there be fresh eels?"
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
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