telly

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛli/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛli

Etymology 1

Shortened form of tele(vision) +‎ -y.

Noun

telly (usually uncountable, plural tellys or tellies)

(Commonwealth, Ireland)

  1. (colloquial) Television.
    • 2007 August 24', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 1:
      You're from telly!
    • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How We Made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in Rail, number 934, page 48:
      [...] they were all in agreement: this stuff had to be on the telly.
    Not much on telly tonight, as usual!
  2. (colloquial) A television set.
    We've got a new flat-screen telly.
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The plural is not used in the US.

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Etymology 2

Shortened form of (ho)tel and/or (mo)tel +‎ -y.

Noun

telly (plural tellies)

  1. (US, Canada, chiefly MTE, slang) A hotel or motel.
    I'm staying at the telly this weekend.

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