Tunny is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 19 anagrams from letters in tunny (nntuy).
1520-30; by apocope Medieval Latin tunnīna false tunny, noun use of feminine of tunnīnus like a tunny, equivalent to tunn(us) tunny (variant of Latin thynnus Greek thýnnos) + -īnus Examples for tunny
The medals of Asido, Florez describes as having sometimes a bull, and at others a fish of the tunny kind, upon them. tunny and anchovies are caught in great quantities in the gulfs of Corsica, especially about Ajaccio and Bonifazio. I am the tunny, your prison companion in the body of the Dog-Fish. That I shall be off to my tunny fisheries, and you will remain with your scullery-maid. I beg your pardon, you were describing how you caught a tunny? The flesh of the tunny is much esteemed, being firm and wholesome. There are anchovy, tunny, and coral fisheries on many parts of the coast, but they are not diligently pursued. The tunny, coming in contact with this net, become alarmed, and make off from it in the only direction left open to them. An old Cornish name for the tunny, or a scomber, larger than the horse-mackerel. The next morning, and for many mornings afterwards, not a tunny was to be seen.