jelly

noun

1. 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.

   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 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.

   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.

3. 3

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

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   archaicA pretty girl; a girlfriend.

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

7. 7

   slangA 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.

8. 8

   A jelly shoe.

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

9. 9

   Blood.

10. 10

    Variant of jelly coconutClipping of jelly coconut.

11. 11

    Variant of gellyAlternative spelling of gelly: clipping of gelignite.

verb

1. 1

   To make into jelly.

2. 2

   To preserve in jelly.

3. 3

   To wiggle like jelly.

adjective

1. 1

   slangJealous.

   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!

   “It's fine. I hate the beach anyway. Everyone's so jelly of my thigh gap.”

noun

1. 1

   Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.

   Under pinning with jelly in chunam — one square.

Forms

plural

jellies

comparative

more jelly

superlative

most jelly

past tense

jellied

past participle

jellied

present participle

jellying

third person singular

jellies