Word.ws English Dictionary

tellys

tellys 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 tellys

What is tellys the plural of?
Tellys is the plural of telly.

Words near tellys in the dictionary

  1. telluropyrylium
  2. tellurous
  3. Tellus
  4. telly
  5. telly tennis
  6. tellys
  7. Tellytubby
  8. Telmanove
  9. telmatherinid
  10. telmatherinids
  11. telmatic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tellys (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tellys.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tellys. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.