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Torygraph

Torygraph proper noun: the Telegraph newspaper.

Proper noun

Torygraph

  1. (UK, derogatory, informal) The Telegraph newspaper.
    • I thought, I'm not going to do my spring boxes and give a picture to the bloody Torygraph.1993, David Hare, Lyn Haill, Asking around, page 169
    • My parents have both gone: my father in 2021, my mother two years later. Even lovely Jane, gone. Makes me sorrowful. Jane and I got along like a pair of naughty kids with stink bombs at a jumble sale. Madam loved her too. She stayed with us in the castle we were renting in 2007; if only you could...2025 December, Kevin Bowyer, “Prière: ‘Prélude 25’ from 25 Préludes dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs, Op. 31 Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–88)”, Well-Thumbed, in Organists' Review, via EBSCOhost...

Origin of Torygraph

Blend of Tory + telegraph, from the newspaper's political leanings; popularised by Private Eye magazine.

Questions about Torygraph

What does Torygraph mean?
Torygraph means the Telegraph newspaper.
What part of speech is Torygraph?
Torygraph is a proper noun.

Words near Torygraph in the dictionary

  1. Torydom
  2. toryfied
  3. toryfies
  4. toryfy
  5. toryfying
  6. Torygraph
  7. Toryish
  8. Toryism
  9. Toryisms
  10. toryistic
  11. toryize

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