Noun: tunny
| Singular | tunny |
| Plural | tunny; tunnies |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like tunny
small fry,
Bungy,
pirozhky,
military,
Romany,
atomy,
tunny,
Malagasy,
fokontany,
peroshky,
goby,
Etymology
From Middle French thon + -y, from Old Occitan ton, from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). See: Latin Nouns '
thunnus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
θύννος'.