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tellies

tellies is the plural of telly.

Meaning of telly

Noun

telly (countable and uncountable, plural tellies or (nonstandard) tellys)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial) Television.
    • Not much on telly tonight, as usual!
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial) A television set.
    • We've got a new flat-screen telly.
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial) Telegraph.
  4. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial) Telephone.
  5. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial) Teleport.
  6. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial) Telecommunication.

See all 8 meanings of telly

Questions about tellies

What is tellies the plural of?
Tellies is the plural of telly.

Words near tellies in the dictionary

  1. Tellezes
  2. Tellicherry
  3. Tellicherry bark
  4. Tellier
  5. Telliers
  6. tellies
  7. tellimagrandin
  8. tellin
  9. tellin'
  10. tellinacean
  11. tellinaceans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tellies (page history and authors); telly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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