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telly

sostantivosostantivoaggettivocorrente nei dialoghi

  • //ˈtɛli//

Television.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    Television.

    Not much on telly tonight, as usual!

    You're from telly!

    [...] they were all in agreement: this stuff had to be on the telly.

  2. 2

    A television set.

    We've got a new flat-screen telly.

  3. 3

    Telegraph.

  4. 4

    Telephone.

  5. 5

    Teleport.

  6. 6

    Telecommunication.

Etimologia

Shortened form of tele(vision) + -y.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    gergoA hotel or motel.

    I'm staying at the telly this weekend.

Etimologia

Shortened form of (ho)tel and/or (mo)tel + -y.

aggettivo

  1. 1

    informaleInclined to telling (by explicitly stating facts), instead of showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative).

    I think my problem with it is that it's a) a little "telly" not "showy" in comparison to the rest […]

    There's a way to make this more showy and less telly. It's like you're in a hurry to get on with the rest of the story.

    story is too, too telly; need at least 3 showy scenes to improve showing:telling ratio

    Six of Crows is very telly and little showy. You are constantly getting info dumps and mini-flashbacks to the characters past.

Etimologia

From tell + -y, related to the writing advice show, don't tell.

Forme

plurale
tellies, tellys
comparativo
more telly
superlativo
most telly
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Contenuto lessicale tratto da Wiktionary, sotto licenza CC BY-SA 4.0 · Voce di origine · Versione dei dati 2026-08-23

Posizione tra le parole del corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — sottotitoli di film e serie, quindi lingua parlata e non scritta (CC BY-SA 3.0).