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Etymology

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tunny +‎ fish

Noun

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tunnyfish (plural tunnyfishes or tunnyfish)

  1. tuna
    • 1989, Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays:
      In the morning as soon as he woke up he at once started smoking, drinking and eating the tunnyfish in oil, and writing quantities of letters in a tearing hurry, and he upset a bottle of ink on a carpet in his room []