tunny
pronunciation
How to pronounce tunny in British English:
UK [ˈtʌni]
How to pronounce tunny in American English:
US ['tʌnɪ]
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- Noun:
- important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
- any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
Word Origin
- tunny (n.)
- large sea-fish of the mackerel order, 1520s, probably from Middle French thon (14c.), from Old Provençal ton and directly from Latin thunnus "a tuna, tunny," from Greek thynnos "a tuna, tunny," possibly with a literal sense of "darter," from thynein "dart along."
Example
- 1. And you ain 't got tunny blood .
- 2. I do not tind this at all tunny .
- 3. And what are those tunny marks ?
- 4. Are you the tunny widow ?
- 5. The sharks congregated in two areas , with one group feeding on the fish eggs of spawning little tunny ( euthynnus alletteratus ) , a member of the mackerel family ; the other group feeding on copepods ( small crustaceans ) and shrimp .