jelly

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Etymology [edit]

Old French gelee, from geler (“to congeal”), from Latin gelū.

Noun [edit]

jelly (countable and uncountable; plural jellies)

  1. (New Zealand, Australia, UK) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set
  2. A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin
    • 1945, Fannie Merritt Farmer and Wilma Lord Perkins revisor, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Eighth edition:
      Perfect jelly is of appetizing flavor; beautifully colored and translucent; tender enough to cut easily with a spoon, yet firm enough to hold its shape when turned from the glass.
    • 1975, Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking, 5th revision:
      Jelly has great clarity. Two cooking processes are involved. First, the juice alone is extracted from the fruit. Only that portion thin and clear enough to drip through a cloth is cooked with sugar until sufficiently firm to hold its shape. It is never stiff and never gummy.
  3. A similar dish made with meat.
    calf's-foot jelly
  4. (zoology) Short for jellyfish.
  5. (slang, now rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
    • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 25:
      ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’
  6. (US, slang) A large backside, especially a woman's.
    • 2001, Destiny's Child, “Bootylicious” (song)
      I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance
    • 2001, George Dell, Dance Unto the Lord, page 94:
      At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair.
  7. (colloquial) Short for gelignite.
  8. (colloquial) A jelly shoe.
    • 2006, David L. Marcus, What It Takes to Pull Me Through:
      Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […]

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dessert
sweet gelatinous substance derived from fruit juices and pectin
jam
sieved jam
large backside

Verb [edit]

jelly (third-person singular simple present jellies, present participle jellying, simple past and past participle jellied)

  1. To wiggle like jelly.
  2. To make jelly.

Translations [edit]

to wiggle like jelly
to make jelly

Adjective [edit]

jelly (comparative more jelly, superlative most jelly)

  1. (slang) Jealous.
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