different between telly vs tilly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Etymology 1

Shortened form of tele(vision) +? -y.

Noun

telly (usually uncountable, plural tellys or tellies) (chiefly Commonwealth of Nations)

1. (colloquial) Television.

2. (colloquial) A television set.

Usage notes

The plural is not used in the US.

Synonyms

• tube (US), TV, tele (UK, rare)

Derived terms

• telly tennis

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

telly (plural tellies)

1. (US, slang) A hotel or motel.

Anagrams

• Lytle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Etymology 1

From Irish tuilleadh (“more”).

Noun

tilly (plural tillies)

1. (Ireland) An extra product given to a customer at no additional charge; a lagniappe.
   • 1855, Legends of mount Leinster, by Harry Whitney:

     Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. So what could Ido but run home, to […] go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my tillies.

Synonyms

• lagniappe (America), pasella (South Africa)

Etymology 2

From WWII British Army usage Tilly (“name of a range of British Army vehicles”), from utility.

Alternative forms

• Tilly

Noun

tilly (plural tillies)

1. (Britain) A small open-backed truck.
   • 1978, Ada F Kay (A. J. Stewart), Died 1513-born 1929 / King's Memory, page 83:

     After a fortnight's careful nursing my leg healed and I was packed off in a tilly (utility truck) with my kit-bag to join my comrades at Fairmilehead.

   • 1980, Once Upon a Ward: V.A.D.s' Own Stories and Pictures, page 119:

     One night soon after our arrival in Belgium, four of us set off to a dance in a rest centre, behind the lines, for the forces. We drove across a snowy waste in a tilly truck, singing "Lilly Marlene".

Synonyms

• (small truck): ute (Australia)

Etymology 3

From till +? -y.

Adjective

tilly (comparative more tilly, superlative most tilly)

1. Containing till (unsorted glacial sediment).