tunny

[ tuhn-ee ]

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

Origin of tunny

1
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-ine1

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How to use tunny in a sentence

  • 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.

    Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred Downer
  • 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.

    The Story of Seville | Walter M. Gallichan

British Dictionary definitions for tunny

tunny

/ (ˈtʌnɪ) /


nounplural -nies or -ny
  1. another name for tuna 1

Origin of tunny

1
C16: from Old French thon, from Old Provençal ton, from Latin thunnus, from Greek

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