jelly
IPA: dʒˈɛɫi
noun
- (New Zealand, Australia, Britain) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set, known as "jello" in North America.
- (Canada, US, Britain (certain specific usages)) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Normally known as "jam" in Commonwealth English but see redcurrant jelly and jeely.
- A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.
- Any substance or object having the consistency of jelly.
- (zoology) A jellyfish.
- (slang, now rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
- (US, slang) A large backside, especially a woman's.
- (colloquial) A jelly shoe.
- (colloquial, US) Blood.
- (India) Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.
- (Caribbean, Jamaica) Clipping of jelly coconut. [A coconut with soft or gelatinous meat inside as well as the meat itself (which is of regular quality if the coconut is immature)]
- (colloquial) Clipping of gelignite. [An explosive mixture of nitroglycerine and nitrate absorbed onto a base of wood pulp.]
verb
- (transitive) To make into jelly.
- (transitive) To preserve in jelly.
- To wiggle like jelly.
adjective
- (slang) Jealous.
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