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telly

[tel-ee] / ˈtɛl i /


NOUN
small screen
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NOUN
television set
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It’s the kind of telly I seek — light and soft and heartwarming and optimistic.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"Without this, I'd be sat at home, I'd either be watching the telly or I'd be asleep. I'd have no social life. It gives me something to look forward to."

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

Kemp also recounted how someone in a pub recently told him he looked "a lot fatter on telly".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025

We have this old piano, and on Friday nights we’d sing and eat beans on toast and watch telly all together and have a laugh.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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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