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tunny
[ tuhn-ee ]
noun
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Origin of tunny1
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Example Sentences
Shoals of tunny-fish, (fish four and five feet long, and belonging to the dolphin tribe,) were seen tumbling about the ship.
His first idea is to seek wealth, so he builds a great boat and captures twelve hundred tunny fish.
You may pay twopence-halfpenny a pound for it, and charge me half-a-crown, if you like, but I mean to taste that tunny!
I beg your pardon, you were describing how you caught a tunny?
Tunny and other fish were plentiful in the sea, and the rivers afforded large eels.
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