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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- gelly (obsolete)
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English jelyf, gelly, gelye, gelle, gelee, gele, from Old French gelee, from Old French geler (“to congeal”), from Latin gelāre.
Noun[edit]
jelly (countable and uncountable, plural jellies)
- (New Zealand, Australia, Britain) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set, known as "jello" in North America.
- (Canada, US) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Known as "jam" in Commonwealth English.
- 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 savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.
- Any substance or object having the consistency of jelly.
- calf's-foot jelly
- 1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, Chapter 24,[1]
- […] some of the profounder scholars are altogether too great for locomotion, and are carried from place to place in a sort of sedan tub, wabbling jellies of knowledge that enlist my respectful astonishment.
- (zoology) A jellyfish.
- 2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, vol. 36 no. 5:
- Species of the phylum Cnidaria – the classic jelly – have existed in something close to their current form for at least 565 million years; Ctenophora, the comb jellies, are not much younger.
- 2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, vol. 36 no. 5:
- (slang, now rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 25:
- ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 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) Clipping of 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:
- (colloquial, US) Blood.
Synonyms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
dessert
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sweet gelatinous substance derived from fruit juices and pectin
jam
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sieved jam
meat dish
a jellyfish
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 wiggle like jelly
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to make jelly
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Etymology 2[edit]
Clipping of jealous + -y (informal adjective ending).
Adjective[edit]
jelly (comparative more jelly, superlative most jelly)
- (slang) Jealous.
- 2011, "Exchange smiles, not saliva", The Banner (Grand Blanc High School), Volume 47, Issue 2, December 2011, page 17:
- "I think other people make rude comments because they're jelly [jealous] bro," Schroer said. "We're just showing our love to other people."
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:jelly.
References[edit]
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