jelly

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or…

   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.

   • His mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert.
   • Rincewind relaxed slightly, which was to say that he still made a violin string look like a bowl of jelly.
2. 2

   A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either…

   A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Clipping of jelly coconut.

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   1. 4

      A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.

   2. 5

      Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve.

      • calf's-foot jelly
      • Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch.
      • […] 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.
   3. 6

      A jellyfish.

      • 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.
   4. 7

      A pretty girl

      A pretty girl; a girlfriend.

      • ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’
   5. 8

      A large backside, especially a woman's.

      • I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance
      • At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair.
   6. 9

      Alternative spelling of gelly

      Alternative spelling of gelly: clipping of gelignite.

   7. 10

      A jelly shoe.

      • Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […]
   8. 11

      Blood.

   9. 12

      To make into jelly.

   10. 13

       To preserve in jelly.

   11. 14

       To wiggle like jelly.

   12. 15

       Jealous.

       • 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! :-)
       • "I think other people make rude comments because they're jelly [jealous] bro," Schroer said. "We're just showing our love to other people."
       • Shame on all you haters out there! You’re all just jelly!
   13. 16

       Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.

       • Under pinning with jelly in chunam — one square.

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