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#* {{quote-book|en|year=2021| title=Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom |author=Edward Stratemeyer | page=| passage=You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the '''tunny''' fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids-- }} |
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Revision as of 18:04, 11 October 2024
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle French thon + -y, from Old Occitan ton, from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), + -y.
Pronunciation
Noun
tunny (countable and uncountable, plural tunny or tunnies)
- (dated) tuna
- 2021, Edward Stratemeyer, Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom:
- You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--
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- → Irish: tuinnín
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