Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a fin or fins.
- adj. Resembling a fin; finlike.
- adj. Of, relating to, or full of fish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having fins; finned: as, finny fish.
- Fishy; fish-like; of the nature of fish: as, the finny tribes.
- Containing fish: as, the finny deep.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having one or more fins
- adj. Resembling a fin
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.
- adj. Abounding in fishes.
Examples
“He calls his finny friends, in a scene that gave me goosebumps:”
“The general effect of the spectacle is as if one watched an endless kind of finny Grand National”
“The computer-animation studio's digital marvels, whether populated by creatures furry, finny or metallic, serve as his personal scrapbook of Hallmark moments.”
“Yes | No | Report from cooner wrote 1 week 4 days ago wabbits, grouse, yotes and our finny friends under the hard water.”
“Nope, it ain't the valley of the moon," agreed Billy, and he said it on the evening of the day he hooked a monster steelhead, standing to his neck in the ice-cold water of the Rogue and fighting for forty minutes, with screaming reel, ere he drew his finny prize to the bank and with the scalp-yell of a Comanche jumped and clutched it by the gills.”
“Of these many fine, furry and finny friends, only one to my knowledge has been a guy.”
“He walked through the grasses, found a stream, and looked down into it at the silver and grey finny fish and eels that thrived there.”
“Alas, when I was twelve I went on an extended trip to Oregon with my brother, leaving my finny, scaly, and slimy pals in my mother's care.”
“RosanatorDA she seems like she a pretty finny girl.”
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“I'm usually overly critical about most movies and I suppose, if I really wanted to, I could pick out all the flaws of 'Avatar' if I really wanted to…but the finny thing is, I don't want to and I don't ever care to.”
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brtom The Sounds, and Seas with all their finny drove
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