tuna fish
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- noun
- /ˈtuːnə fɪʃ/
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- She made a delicious salad with tuna fish, vegetables, and a tangy dressing.
- tuna fish sandwich
- tuna fish salad
- tuna fish, canned
I'm going to make a pickled tuna fish for you today.
- I'm going to make a pickled tuna fish for you today.
- Yeah, it's on my calf from the tuna fish can.
- I'm talking about low mercury tuna fish.
- And maybe, all right, it might seem like a sacrifice to give up tuna fish sandwiches for a while, maybe forever.
- And I remembered I made one thing and one thing only, which was bumblebee tuna fish.
- It smells like like a it smells like a tuna fish sandwich swam through a mix Meadow.
Examples
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The remaining lunches are usually tuna fish with raw veggies and sliced fruit.
Blog text (12) -
Tonight for dinner we have homemade tuna fish cakes, some chips, and raw veggies.
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Would you ever get a tuna fish sandwich at any place?
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You want a tuna fish sandwich?
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I made tuna fish for lunch, with tomato the way you like it.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'll fix you a tuna fish sandwich.
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When she took me home for lunch one day, she served grilled tuna fish sandwiches and homemade macaroni and cheese.
Fiction book (1999) -
Tuna fish salad on white bread with mayonnaise, a Tab and a couple of Twinkies.
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For dinner, I grilled some tuna fish steaks with lemon and herbs.
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Every Friday, we enjoy a classic tuna fish sandwich for lunch.
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'tuna' (a Thunnus fish) + 'fish' (an aquatic vertebrate); the compound simply names a type of fish. Although 'tuna' alone often implies a fish, the phrase is transparent and immediately understandable to a B1 learner and follows common cross-linguistic noun + noun specification patterns.
Etymology
Tuna fish comes from the name for a very large, fast sea fish. Fishermen caught big tuna and brought the fish to towns to eat or to put in cans, so the picture of that sea creature became the name for the 'food' we eat today.