jelly bean

See also: jellybean

English

Alternative forms

• jellybean (especially US)

Noun

jelly beans

jelly bean (plural jelly beans)

1. A small, bean-shaped, chewy candy/sweet with a firm coating and a jelly-like center, made of sugar, flavoring, coloring and sometimes starch or other thickener, and usually sold assorted in a wide variety of flavors and bright colors.
   • 2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 104:

     Ronalda had gotten these jelly beans special, from Lenox Square. They were all colors, pink with brown flecks, purple, orange. The flavors had exotic names like Piña Colada and Fig Leaf.

Synonyms

• jelly egg

Derived terms

• gourmet jelly bean, gourmet jellybean
• peachy keen jelly bean
• jellybean (adjective)

Translations

small bean-shaped chewy candy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 果凍豆 / 果冻豆 (guǒdòngdòu), 里根糖 (lǐgēn-táng), 雷根糖 (léigēn-táng)

• Finnish: jelly bean
• French: Jelly Bean m
• German: Geleebonbon n
• Indonesian: kacang jeli
• Italian: jelly belly f
• Japanese: ゼリービーンズ (zerībīnzu)
• Korean: 젤리빈 (jellibin)
• Portuguese: jujuba (pt)
• Russian: желе́йный боб m (želéjnyj bob)
• Scots: jeelie bean
• Spanish: jelly bean m (yeli bin), confite (es) m, dragea f (disused)
• Thai: เจลลี่บีน (jàyllêebeen)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• jelly bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia