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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finny

Finny \Fin"ny\, a.

  1. (Zo["o]l.) Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.

  2. Abounding in fishes.

    With patient angle trolls the finny deep.
    --Goldsmoth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
finny

1580s, from fin + -y (2).

Wiktionary
finny

a. 1 (context of a fish English) Having one or more fins 2 Resembling a fin 3 Abounding in fishes.

Wikipedia
Finny

Finny may refer to:

  • Steven Finn (cricketer)
  • Finny snake eel

Usage examples of "finny".

Here was located a mountain torrent, said to be filled with the gamiest kind of specimens of the finny tribe.

And, having seeded the Great Cleft Lake with ships, it is Kolodrian merchants who today bear its finny harvest back across the Sea of Agon in their argosies, and market it throughout the Shallows.