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thunny

thunny is the archaic form of tunny.

Meaning of tunny

Noun

tunny (countable and uncountable, plural tunny or tunnies)

  1. (dated) 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
    Synonyms:
    tuna

Forms of thunny

pluralthunnies

Questions about thunny

What is thunny the archaic form of?
Thunny is the archaic form of tunny.

Words near thunny in the dictionary

  1. thunniform
  2. thunnosaur
  3. thunnosaurian
  4. thunnosaurians
  5. thunnosaurs
  6. thunny
  7. Thunor
  8. Thuonoknyu
  9. thur
  10. thural
  11. Thurawal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thunny (page history and authors); tunny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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