Dictionary

tunny en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈtʌni/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, dated, uncountable) Synonym of tuna.
   • 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. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
   • 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-- 2021, Edward Stratemeyer, Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom:

Forms

Deriveds

little tunny · tunnyfish

Descendants

tuinnín

Synonyms

tuna