Teletubby

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the four color-coded tubby human-like characters in the BBC children's television series Teletubbies.

    "She spoke like the Teletubbies, behaved like a Teletubby, and seemed to live in this harmonious toddler phantasy world."

Example

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"She spoke like the Teletubbies, behaved like a Teletubby, and seemed to live in this harmonious toddler phantasy world."

Etymology

From tele- (television) + tubby.

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