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# {{lb|en|dated}} [[tuna]]
# {{lb|en|dated}} [[tuna|Tuna]].
#* {{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-- }}
#* {{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-- }}


Revision as of 00:26, 27 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)

  1. (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--

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Irish: tuinnín

Anagrams

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