teevee

• teevy

Respelling of the abbreviation TV.

teevee (countable and uncountable, plural teevees)

1. (colloquial) television
   • 2002, Buck Song Koh, Umej Bhatia, From Boys to Men:

     On teevee, everyone looked the same. People were just different shades of grey. If the sky was grey on teevee, I knew it meant blue.

From the abbreviation TV.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːʋeː/, [ˈt̪e̞ːʋe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eːʋeː
• Hyphenation^(key): tee‧vee

teevee (colloquial)

1. television

• televisio

• “teevee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03