jelly

== English == === Alternative forms === gelly (obsolete) === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛli/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒeli/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛle/, /-lɪ/, /-li/ Rhymes: -ɛli === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Middle English gele. Doublet of gelee. ==== Noun ==== jelly (countable and uncountable, plural jellies) (Commonwealth) 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. Synonym: (North America) jello (chiefly Canada, US) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Synonym: (Commonwealth) jam 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. (Caribbean, Jamaica) Clipping of jelly coconut. A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert. Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve. (zoology) A jellyfish. (slang, now rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend. (US, slang) A large backside, especially a woman's. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of gelly: clipping of gelignite. (colloquial) A jelly shoe. (colloquial, US) Blood. ===== Synonyms ===== (dessert made by boiling gelatin): (US) jello, Jell-O (fruit preserve): jam, marmalade (gelatinous meat product): aspic ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== gel gelatin ===== Descendants ===== → Chickasaw: cheliꞌ, jellꞌ → Welsh: jeli, sieli ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== jelly (third-person singular simple present jellies, present participle jellying, simple past and past participle jellied) (transitive) To make into jelly. (transitive) To preserve in jelly. To wiggle like jelly. (Can we add an example for this sense?) ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Clipping of jealous +‎ -y (informal adjective ending). ==== Adjective ==== 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 quotations using this term, see Citations:jelly. === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== jelly (uncountable) (India) Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads. ===== References ===== Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “jelly”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […]. === References === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “jelly”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “jelly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.