tunny
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
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
His great estates were protected by it, and he made it a kind of central depôt for his profitable tunny fisheries.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick
But the tunny lies in holes, although he is a fish with a great deal of blood.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Then there is the scombrus, or tunny, which is mentioned by this name by Aristophanes, in his Gerytades.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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