tellyn.¹

Brit.

/ˈtɛli/, U.S.

/ˈtɛli/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: telegraph n.

Etymology: Shortened < telegraph n. (compare -y suffix⁶).

colloquial. Now chiefly U.S. regional (Pennsylvania).

= telegraph n. Now usually attributive, esp. in telly pole.In quot. 1796: a type of optical telegraph invented by Sir Richard Lovell Edgeworth in 1767 (cf. telegraph n. 1a).In telly pole, sometimes meaning or confused with telephone.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun]

telly1796

telegraph1797

telelectrograph1857

thought-conductor1889

magneto-telegraph1890

set?1891

1796 M. Edgeworth Let. in Mem. M. Edgeworth (1867) I. 75 He was afraid that the motion of the stage would have been too violent to agree with his model telegraph—‘his pretty, delicate little telly’, as Lovell calls it.

1876 Argosy Dec. 464 It's agen the rules to leave my box, I know, and I wouldn't leave it for anybody but you..if I didn't know that you knew how to work the levers and the telly a'most as well as I do myself.

1947 A. de Sélincourt Dorset 12 I stopped a countryman in a cart and asked him the way. ‘Follow the telly-poles, master,’ he said, ‘they'll take 'ee to Tollur-r-d.’

1976 Philadelphia Mag. Mar. 126 Tellypole is the correct word..(for the big wooden poles with wires on them). What is it—a telegraph pole, a telephone pole, an electric pole?

2001 J. E. Wideman Hoop Roots (2003) 63 You and your little crew throwing..a..ball..into some jerry-rigged peach basket nailed to a board on a telly pole.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tellyn.²

Brit.

/ˈtɛli/, U.S.

/ˈtɛli/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: television n.

Etymology: Shortened < television n. (compare -y suffix⁶). Compare tele n.³

colloquial.

1. = television n. 1.

a. In singular. Now chiefly British.Recorded earliest in attributive use. on (the) telly: = on (the) television at television n. Phrases.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun]

television1900

telly1930

tele1936

small screen1944

TV1945

teevee1948

1930 Variety 19 Nov. 11/5 Sets are being confined to use in homes and offices of company officials and telly engineers.

1931 Billboard 22 Aug. 15/4 Many radical improvements are still needed before telly can become scientifically accurate or an effective advertising and entertainment medium.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §618/3 Lookies, tellies, telly.

1953 V. S. Pritchett in New Statesman 6 June 661/2 On the ‘telly’ the ceremony was profoundly moving and poetic.

1957 Observer 3 Nov. 4/5 For all practical purposes, if it hasn't been on telly, it doesn't exist.

1958 M. Spark Go-away Bird 152 He said, ‘What do you do in the evenings, Lorna? Do you watch Telly?’ I did take this as an insult, because we call it TV, and his remark made me out to be uneducated.

1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 70 A growing tendency in domestic life of subordinating activities to the ‘telly’.

1977 New Yorker 26 Sept. 37/1 His parents lived an isolated life, but now had the telly.

1989 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (2000) II. 6th Ser. Episode 2. 49/2 It's the government and their moral crusade—that and all the public information films on the telly.

2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 15 I saw it on telly once that you should always fire people on a Monday morning, never on a Friday afternoon.

2011 Independent 20 June (Viewspaper section) 7/2 Firms installing satellite dishes [in France] to pick up British telly.

b. Chiefly U.S. In plural. Now disused.Further evidence for the additional meaning given in quot. 1940 is wanting.

ΚΠ

1931 W. Pickens in N.Y. Amsterdam News 11 Nov. 11/3 Just as we now have the ‘Movies’ and the ‘Talkies’, we shall have what I hope we will not call the ‘Lookies’; maybe they will call it the ‘Tellies’, as American short for television.

1935 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 14 May 27/6 So thus from movies to talkies or tellies, and the whole town's squawking.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 837/2 Tellies, colloquialism for cinematograph films with sound; also for television.

1941 Observer 14 Sept. 7/4 I wonder sometimes how long it will last before the bombshell falls—smellies, ‘tellies’, all-colour films, something to blow the Hollywood complacency skyhigh.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §618/3 Lookies, tellies, telly.

2. Originally and chiefly British = television n. 2.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set

television set1924

television1929

home video1949

TV1949

box1950

transistor set1953

telly1954

idiot box1955

monitor1957

boob tube1959

goggle-box1959

transportable1959

the tube1959

portable1960

set1961

widescreen1982

1954 Listener 18 Nov. 877/1 Perhaps a ‘telly’ in the corner of that uncomfortable ‘lounge’?

1957 F. King Man on Rock i. 7 I can't even afford to pay the never-never on a wireless, let alone a telly.

1978 K. Amis Jake's Thing iii. 30 Let's be absolute devils and have the heating on and huddle round the telly.

2005 K. Jaimie in Granta Summer 87 Down the road other lay-bys were strewn with busted tellies and beer cans and bin bags disgorging rags.

3. Theatre and Broadcasting. A performance or programme for television; a booking or session of filming for this.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > a television performance or session

telly1963

1963 E. Humphreys Gift 8 Every time I did a telly it was a lovely day, while I sweated my guts out under the artificial light.

1979 S. Brett Comedian Dies ii. 23 I've got you a telly... It's an Alexander Harvey Show.

2005 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Theatre Archive Project) (transcript) I did a telly about three or four weeks ago—Broken News—which I enjoyed very much, and I auditioned today for another film.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as telly ad, telly programme, telly set, etc.; objective, as telly-viewer, etc.

ΚΠ

1930telly engineers [see sense 1a].

1931 Billboard 1 Aug. 4/1 There are 27 experimental telly stations now operating in United States.

1946 Billboard 21 Dec. 31/2 Telly set was installed recently during bar biz lull, and hotel feels machine has helped considerably to hype biz.

1949 N.Y. Amsterdam News 14 May 25/4 Sock telly acts on the Ed Sullivan show have been Son and Sonny, Billy Eckstine [etc.].

1954 Listener 18 Feb. 313/1 The plumber expressing his opinion..of the ‘telly’ programme at 8.15 the night before.

1963 Spectator 22 Feb. 230/3 The Third Programme..is becoming more and more a private club or experimental research establishment unwittingly financed by the telly-viewers.

1966 J. Betjeman High & Low 4 Slate cottages with sycamore between, Small fields and telly-masts and wires and poles.

1969 J. Fabian & J. Byrne Groupie (1970) i. 9 I even believe telly ads and things like that.

1989 J. Trollope Village Affair iii. 35 I went upstairs and packed a bag—silly really, just like some melodramatic telly thing.

2000 News (Karachi) 25 Apr. (You section) 2/1 One of the in-demand leading ladies of the telly scene.

2009 Time Out N.Y. 1 Jan. 17/1 The hours of telly exposure made me oddly antsy and anxious.

C2.

telly addict n. chiefly British an enthusiastic or compulsive watcher of television.

ΚΠ

1959 New Era in Home & School Apr. 84/1 These corner loungers are not ‘telly’ addicts like their younger brothers and sisters.

1987 Irish Times 5 Nov. 16/1 Some..sets..switch off in 30/60/90 minutes' time. Perfect for the telly addict who's trying to give it up.

2013 Daily Star (Nexis) 15 June (Hot TV section) 4 If there's one thing that telly addicts seem to love, it's a good old medieval romp.

telly man n. chiefly British a man who works in television; a television journalist or cameraman.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > people involved in television production

lightman1892

production team1944

telly man1954

1954 Punch 1 Nov. 11/2 The number of cases of epilepsy, suicide, and jealousy-murder among audiences eventually led the Telly-men to present me alone, in a padded studio.

1961 Irish Times 1 Mar. 8/7 She is giving a private showing of her film..to the head Irish Tellyman, Mr. Roth.

2013 Daily Star (Nexis) 28 Feb. 5 Minders..grappled with TV cameramen. One telly man was pushed over a metal street bollard.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	telly
释义	tellyn.¹ Brit. /ˈtɛli/, U.S. /ˈtɛli/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: telegraph n. Etymology: Shortened < telegraph n. (compare -y suffix⁶). colloquial. Now chiefly U.S. regional (Pennsylvania). = telegraph n. Now usually attributive, esp. in telly pole.In quot. 1796: a type of optical telegraph invented by Sir Richard Lovell Edgeworth in 1767 (cf. telegraph n. 1a).In telly pole, sometimes meaning or confused with telephone. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] telly1796 telegraph1797 telelectrograph1857 thought-conductor1889 magneto-telegraph1890 set?1891 1796 M. Edgeworth Let. in Mem. M. Edgeworth (1867) I. 75 He was afraid that the motion of the stage would have been too violent to agree with his model telegraph—‘his pretty, delicate little telly’, as Lovell calls it. 1876 Argosy Dec. 464 It's agen the rules to leave my box, I know, and I wouldn't leave it for anybody but you..if I didn't know that you knew how to work the levers and the telly a'most as well as I do myself. 1947 A. de Sélincourt Dorset 12 I stopped a countryman in a cart and asked him the way. ‘Follow the telly-poles, master,’ he said, ‘they'll take 'ee to Tollur-r-d.’ 1976 Philadelphia Mag. Mar. 126 Tellypole is the correct word..(for the big wooden poles with wires on them). What is it—a telegraph pole, a telephone pole, an electric pole? 2001 J. E. Wideman Hoop Roots (2003) 63 You and your little crew throwing..a..ball..into some jerry-rigged peach basket nailed to a board on a telly pole. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tellyn.² Brit. /ˈtɛli/, U.S. /ˈtɛli/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: television n. Etymology: Shortened < television n. (compare -y suffix⁶). Compare tele n.³ colloquial. 1. = television n. 1. a. In singular. Now chiefly British.Recorded earliest in attributive use. on (the) telly: = on (the) television at television n. Phrases. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] television1900 telly1930 tele1936 small screen1944 TV1945 teevee1948 1930 Variety 19 Nov. 11/5 Sets are being confined to use in homes and offices of company officials and telly engineers. 1931 Billboard 22 Aug. 15/4 Many radical improvements are still needed before telly can become scientifically accurate or an effective advertising and entertainment medium. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §618/3 Lookies, tellies, telly. 1953 V. S. Pritchett in New Statesman 6 June 661/2 On the ‘telly’ the ceremony was profoundly moving and poetic. 1957 Observer 3 Nov. 4/5 For all practical purposes, if it hasn't been on telly, it doesn't exist. 1958 M. Spark Go-away Bird 152 He said, ‘What do you do in the evenings, Lorna? Do you watch Telly?’ I did take this as an insult, because we call it TV, and his remark made me out to be uneducated. 1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 70 A growing tendency in domestic life of subordinating activities to the ‘telly’. 1977 New Yorker 26 Sept. 37/1 His parents lived an isolated life, but now had the telly. 1989 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (2000) II. 6th Ser. Episode 2. 49/2 It's the government and their moral crusade—that and all the public information films on the telly. 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 15 I saw it on telly once that you should always fire people on a Monday morning, never on a Friday afternoon. 2011 Independent 20 June (Viewspaper section) 7/2 Firms installing satellite dishes [in France] to pick up British telly. b. Chiefly U.S. In plural. Now disused.Further evidence for the additional meaning given in quot. 1940 is wanting. ΚΠ 1931 W. Pickens in N.Y. Amsterdam News 11 Nov. 11/3 Just as we now have the ‘Movies’ and the ‘Talkies’, we shall have what I hope we will not call the ‘Lookies’; maybe they will call it the ‘Tellies’, as American short for television. 1935 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 14 May 27/6 So thus from movies to talkies or tellies, and the whole town's squawking. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 837/2 Tellies, colloquialism for cinematograph films with sound; also for television. 1941 Observer 14 Sept. 7/4 I wonder sometimes how long it will last before the bombshell falls—smellies, ‘tellies’, all-colour films, something to blow the Hollywood complacency skyhigh. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §618/3 Lookies, tellies, telly. 2. Originally and chiefly British = television n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > transmitting or receiving apparatus > [noun] > television set television set1924 television1929 home video1949 TV1949 box1950 transistor set1953 telly1954 idiot box1955 monitor1957 boob tube1959 goggle-box1959 transportable1959 the tube1959 portable1960 set1961 widescreen1982 1954 Listener 18 Nov. 877/1 Perhaps a ‘telly’ in the corner of that uncomfortable ‘lounge’? 1957 F. King Man on Rock i. 7 I can't even afford to pay the never-never on a wireless, let alone a telly. 1978 K. Amis Jake's Thing iii. 30 Let's be absolute devils and have the heating on and huddle round the telly. 2005 K. Jaimie in Granta Summer 87 Down the road other lay-bys were strewn with busted tellies and beer cans and bin bags disgorging rags. 3. Theatre and Broadcasting. A performance or programme for television; a booking or session of filming for this. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > a television performance or session telly1963 1963 E. Humphreys Gift 8 Every time I did a telly it was a lovely day, while I sweated my guts out under the artificial light. 1979 S. Brett Comedian Dies ii. 23 I've got you a telly... It's an Alexander Harvey Show. 2005 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Theatre Archive Project) (transcript) I did a telly about three or four weeks ago—Broken News—which I enjoyed very much, and I auditioned today for another film. Compounds C1. General attributive, as telly ad, telly programme, telly set, etc.; objective, as telly-viewer, etc. ΚΠ 1930telly engineers [see sense 1a]. 1931 Billboard 1 Aug. 4/1 There are 27 experimental telly stations now operating in United States. 1946 Billboard 21 Dec. 31/2 Telly set was installed recently during bar biz lull, and hotel feels machine has helped considerably to hype biz. 1949 N.Y. Amsterdam News 14 May 25/4 Sock telly acts on the Ed Sullivan show have been Son and Sonny, Billy Eckstine [etc.]. 1954 Listener 18 Feb. 313/1 The plumber expressing his opinion..of the ‘telly’ programme at 8.15 the night before. 1963 Spectator 22 Feb. 230/3 The Third Programme..is becoming more and more a private club or experimental research establishment unwittingly financed by the telly-viewers. 1966 J. Betjeman High & Low 4 Slate cottages with sycamore between, Small fields and telly-masts and wires and poles. 1969 J. Fabian & J. Byrne Groupie (1970) i. 9 I even believe telly ads and things like that. 1989 J. Trollope Village Affair iii. 35 I went upstairs and packed a bag—silly really, just like some melodramatic telly thing. 2000 News (Karachi) 25 Apr. (You section) 2/1 One of the in-demand leading ladies of the telly scene. 2009 Time Out N.Y. 1 Jan. 17/1 The hours of telly exposure made me oddly antsy and anxious. C2. telly addict n. chiefly British an enthusiastic or compulsive watcher of television. ΚΠ 1959 New Era in Home & School Apr. 84/1 These corner loungers are not ‘telly’ addicts like their younger brothers and sisters. 1987 Irish Times 5 Nov. 16/1 Some..sets..switch off in 30/60/90 minutes' time. Perfect for the telly addict who's trying to give it up. 2013 Daily Star (Nexis) 15 June (Hot TV section) 4 If there's one thing that telly addicts seem to love, it's a good old medieval romp. telly man n. chiefly British a man who works in television; a television journalist or cameraman. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > people involved in television production lightman1892 production team1944 telly man1954 1954 Punch 1 Nov. 11/2 The number of cases of epilepsy, suicide, and jealousy-murder among audiences eventually led the Telly-men to present me alone, in a padded studio. 1961 Irish Times 1 Mar. 8/7 She is giving a private showing of her film..to the head Irish Tellyman, Mr. Roth. 2013 Daily Star (Nexis) 28 Feb. 5 Minders..grappled with TV cameramen. One telly man was pushed over a metal street bollard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1796n.²1930
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