tunny
English
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Etymology
From Middle French thon, from Old Occitan ton, from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), + -y.
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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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