tunny
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tunny,
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tunnies
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noun
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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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In the interwar period, Scarborough and Whitby became world-famous destinations for game fishing because of the size of the tuna - nicknamed "tunny".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
Of the noble tunny The fair Byzantium the mother is, And of the scombrus lurking in the deep, And of the well-fed ray.
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
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
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.
Thrace supplied salted tunnies, the produce of the Euxine Sea, besides corn.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson
For some time they sailed on prosperously, seeing many tunnies and gulls, and fell in with abundance of sea weeds, with which they were now well acquainted.
The tunnies there Have gain'd the height of fame and palm of victory.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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