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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Examples of "jelly" in Sentences
- The oil can be used for marmalade and jelly.
- The fruit can be made into jelly and marmalade.
- The fruit is mainly used to make marmalade and jelly.
- There is no list of the sour flavor of the jelly beans.
- I thought it was a kind of jelly fish but not jelly like.
- The top of the pastry is glazed with icing and currant jelly.
- The berries are highly astringent but are made into wine and jelly.
- The fruit can be eaten raw but is mainly used to make marmalade and jelly.
- And jelly is silly, sticky, and hardly worth your time if you are an adult.
- Mayhaw jelly is considered by some to be among the finest jellies in the world.
- For example, demand for mint jelly is down because there is a shortage of lamb.
- Bur anyhow, apple pectin jelly is very easy to make, not at all elaborate, and has many other uses.
- If jelly is too expensive, one can always try this (which is probably an even better counter-cyclical asset).
- He brings her water and miniature corn muffins, halved open and spread with bright green pepper jelly from a glass jar she's kept all these years.
- Since I intend to make the apples into a supply of apple pectin jelly, I will not be wanting to do a lot more cooking until after next weekend, when the the jelly is (I hope) finished.
- Reads like a support group for people who saw Avatar and are depressed because they can't actually be Na'vi and live on beautiful, peaceful Pandora ... where a Hammerhead Titanothere would stomp them into thin jelly within six seconds.