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) (chiefly Commonwealth nations and Ireland)

(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!
(colloquial) A television set.
We've got a new flat-screen telly.

Usage notes

The plural is not used in the US.

Synonyms

tube (US), TV, tele (UK, rare)

Derived terms

telly tennis

Translations

television (medium) — See also translations at television

Cornish: telli m
Czech: telka (cs) f
Dutch: tv (nl) f
Esperanto: televido
Finnish: telkkari (fi), telkku (fi), teevee, töllö (fi)
French: télé (fr) f, téloche (fr) f
Hungarian: tévé (hu)
Italian: tele (it) f
Japanese: テレビ (ja) (terebi)
Korean: 텔레비 (tellebi)
Luxembourgish: Tëlee (lb) f
Portuguese: tevê (pt) f
Russian: те́лик (ru) m (télik)
Sinhalese: ටෙලි (ṭeli)
Spanish: tele (es) f
Thai: ทีวี (th) (tii-wii)
Welsh: teli m
Yoruba: tẹ́lì

television set — See also translations at television

Czech: telka (cs) f
Dutch: tv (nl) f
Esperanto: televidilo
Finnish: telkkari (fi), teevee
French: télé (fr) f, téloche (fr) f
German: Glotze (de) f, Fernseher (de) m, Flimmerkiste f
Latvian: teļļuks m
Portuguese: tevê (pt) f
Russian: те́лик (ru) m (télik), я́щик (ru) m (jáščik) (colloquial)
Sinhalese: ටෙලි (ṭeli)
Ukrainian: тєлік m (tjelik)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

telly (plural tellies)

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

Anagrams

Lytle

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