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telly

[tel-ee] / ˈtɛl i /


NOUN
small screen
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NOUN
television set
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The Late Late Toy Show is described as the "biggest telly night of the year"

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Barry Davies gave out the dates matter-of-factly on telly.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

And the “Antiques Roadshow” version of the lottery—the old picture over the family telly that might be worth $200 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 11, 2025

The long-running Channel 4 TV series, narrated by The Royle Family's Craig Cash, has viewers watching other viewers watching the week's telly, often to comic and heartwarming effect.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2025

“Sorry. But we’ve got a TV room and you’re allowed to go there and watch telly after lunchtime.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As a child growing up near the BBC's Alexandra Palace studios he became fascinated at an early age about what went on inside and by his teens he was mending old tellies at school.

From BBC May 18, 2015

There are 14 stars pairing up with professionals to dance on our tellies for the Strictly Come Dancing crown.

From Children's BBC Sep. 8, 2010

All over Britain, women are kneeling in front of their tellies, heads low, shoulders shaking, tears and mucus dripping from their reddened faces like rain from a suburban gutter.

From The Guardian May 1, 2010

Through its American cable channel, BBC America, founded two years ago and now in about 12 million homes, the Beeb is recolonizing American tellies with a slate heavy on newer dramas and "Britcoms."

From Time Magazine Archive




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