a. colloq. Also tuney. [f. TUNE sb. + -Y.] Characterized by ‘tune’ or melody; melodious: sometimes depreciative.
1885. Graphic, 21 Feb., 190/3. Ob, Mozart!… So very tune-y, isn’t he?
1887. Twin Soul, vii. Music that is not ‘tuny’ is not to my taste.
Hence Tuniness.
1899. The Age (Melbourne), 2 Aug., 11/6. Later, we had other undoubted tunes, whose tuniness could not be denied.
1905. Athenæum, 5 Aug., 169/3. Patrick Hannay … has a pretty, if thin, tunefulness (we might rather say tuniness).
1909. Daily Chron., 8 June, 4/7. Italian music … has shape, form, symmetry, in its tuniness.
