Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🟣 Colorful TV characters 📺 A kids' show
Teletubbies

Teletubbies

2 2.8
A children's TV show from Britain with simple stories and songs for very young children
  • proper noun
  • /ˈtɛlɪˌtʌbiz/
  • Baby Talk
: Teletubbies
  • Every morning, my little sister eagerly anticipates the next episode of Teletubbies.
  • Teletubbies show

All she's interested in is Cinderella and Teletubbies and whatever else.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • All she's interested in is Cinderella and Teletubbies and whatever else.

    Liam Tuffs

  • The children laughed as they watched Teletubbies dancing on the screen.

  • Another one of the Teletubbies, the red one.

  • Do you see any Teletubbies in here?

    Unbreakable (2000)

  • Where the Teletubbies may come to roam and read.

    Blog text (15)

  • How about Teletubbies?

    Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)

  • She sucks her cookie and asks me if I like Teletubbies.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • In the land of Teletubbies, the sun smiles down on four friendly creatures.

Surface Forms

Teletubbies main

Morphology

Teletubbies = Teletubby (semi-transparent) = tele + tubby + ies

The name is a playful coined form built from 'tele' and 'tubby', but the plural proper noun is only loosely compositional.

Etymology

Teletubbies comes from two parts: tele- meaning 'television' and tubby meaning 'round' or 'chubby'. The name fits the British children's show because it is about round, colorful creatures with little television screens on their tummies, so the word links 'television' and 'tubby' together.