jelly
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- gelly (obsolete)
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French gelee, from geler (“to congeal”), from Latin gelū.
Noun [edit]
jelly (countable and uncountable; plural jellies)
- (New Zealand, Australia, UK) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set
- 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.
- 1945, Fannie Merritt Farmer and Wilma Lord Perkins revisor, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Eighth edition:
- A similar dish made with meat.
- calf's-foot jelly
- (zoology) Short for jellyfish.
- (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.’
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 25:
- (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.
- 2001, Destiny's Child, “Bootylicious” (song)
- (colloquial) Short for gelignite.
- (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 […]
- 2006, David L. Marcus, What It Takes to Pull Me Through:
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Derived terms
Translations [edit]
dessert
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sweet gelatinous substance derived from fruit juices and pectin
jam
sieved jam
Verb [edit]
jelly (third-person singular simple present jellies, present participle jellying, simple past and past participle jellied)
- To wiggle like jelly.
- To make jelly.
Translations [edit]
to make jelly
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Adjective [edit]
jelly (comparative more jelly, superlative most jelly)
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