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Jelly

//ˈd͡ʒɛl.i// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective

1
Jealous. slang
"If the guy wants to party and bang porn stars, and he's not hurting anyone who really cares? I think a lot of guys are just jelly! :-)"

Noun

1
A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set. Commonwealth, countable, uncountable
"His mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert."
2
Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads. India, uncountable
"Under pinning with jelly in chunam — one square."
3
a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit wordnet
4
A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Canada, US, countable, uncountable
"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."
5
an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods wordnet

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6
Clipping of jelly coconut. Caribbean, Jamaica, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
7
any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin wordnet
8
A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert. countable, uncountable
9
Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve. countable, uncountable
"calf's-foot jelly"
10
A jellyfish. countable, uncountable
"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."
11
A pretty girl; a girlfriend. archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
"‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’"
12
A large backside, especially a woman's. US, countable, slang, uncountable
"I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance"
13
Clipping of gelignite. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable
14
A jelly shoe. colloquial, countable, uncountable
"Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […]"
15
Blood. US, colloquial, countable, uncountable

Verb

1
To make into jelly. transitive
2
make into jelly wordnet
3
To preserve in jelly. transitive
4
To wiggle like jelly.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gel- Latin gelū Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin gelō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin -āta Early Medieval Latin gelāta Old French geleebor. Middle English gele English jelly Inherited from Middle English gele. Doublet of gelee.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Clipping of jealous + -y (informal adjective ending).

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