TUNAFISH

Domain	Definition
Computing	Tunafish n. In hackish lore, refers to the mutated punchline of an age-old joke to be found at the bottom of the manual pages of `tunefs(8)' in the original BSD 4.2 distribution. The joke was removed in later releases once commercial sites started using 4.2, but apparently restored on the 4.4BSD tape and in Net,Free,OpenBSD. Tunefs relates to the `tuning' of file-system parameters for optimum performance, and at the bottom of a few pages of wizardly inscriptions was a `BUGS' section consisting of the line "You can tune a file system, but you can't tunafish". Variants of this can be seen in other BSD versions, though it has been excised from some versions by humorless management droids. The [nt]roff source for SunOS 4.1.1 contains a comment apparently designed to prevent this: "Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps from now until the `time_t''s wrap around." [It has since been pointed out that indeed you can tunafish. Usually at a canning factory... --ESR]. Source: Jargon File.
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Usage Frequency: TUNAFISH

"TUNAFISH" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TUNAFISH" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: TUNAFISH

Anagrams: TUNAFISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: unfaiths.
	Words within the letters "a-f-h-i-n-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: fustian, unfaith, unshift.
	-2 letters: faints, faiths, fusain, haunts, hiatus, shanti, unfits, unhats.
	-3 letters: antis, aunts, faint, faith, fauns, fiats, hafis, hafts, hants, haunt, hints, hunts, naifs, saint, saith, satin, shaft, shift, shunt, snafu, snath, stain, suint, tains, thins, tufas, tunas, unais, unfit, unhat, units.
	-4 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, anus, aunt, fain, fans.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-h-i-n-s-t-u"
	+4 letters: faithfulness, fucoxanthins.
	+5 letters: fountainheads, humifications, ichthyofaunas.
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