Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

torygraph

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

Syllables: to-ry-graph
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The Telegraph newspaper.

British usage; Derogatory; Informal

Example Sentences

"I thought, I'm not going to do my spring boxes and give a picture to the bloody Torygraph."
"My parents have both gone: my father in 2021, my mother two years later. Even lovely Jane, gone. Makes me sorrowful. Jane and I got along like a pair of naughty kids with stink bombs at a jumble sale. Madam loved her too. She stayed with us in the castle we were renting in 2007; if only you could have heard her and my Commander (both Torygraph readers) setting the world to rights."

Etymology

Blend of Tory + telegraph, from the newspaper's political leanings; popularised by Private Eye magazine.

Usage

Questions

What does torygraph mean?: The Telegraph newspaper.
Where does torygraph come from?: Blend of Tory + telegraph, from the newspaper's political leanings; popularised by Private Eye magazine.

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