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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Shortened form of tele(vision) + -y.
Noun
telly (usually uncountable, plural tellys or tellies)
(Commonwealth, 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.
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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)
- (US, Canada, chiefly MTE, slang) A hotel or motel.
I'm staying at the telly this weekend.
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