tunny - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Alternative forms
  • 1.2 Etymology
  • 1.3 Pronunciation
  • 1.4 Noun
    * 1.4.1 Derived terms
    * 1.4.2 Descendants
  • 1.5 Anagrams

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• thunny (archaic)

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

• IPA(key): /ˈtʌni/

tunny (countable and uncountable, plural **tunny or tunnies)

1. (dated) Synonym of tuna.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
     The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.
   • 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--

• little tunny

• → Irish: tuinnín

• nunty

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