/ˈd͡ʒɛl.i/
OriginClipping of jealous + -y (informal adjective ending).
- Commonwealth, countable, uncountableA 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.”
- Canada, US, countable, uncountableA 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 un”
- Caribbean, Jamaica, abbreviation, alt-of, clippingClipping of jelly coconut.
- countable, uncountableA savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.
- countable, uncountableAny 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 astonis”
- countable, uncountableA 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.”
- archaic, countable, slang, uncountableA pretty girl; a girlfriend.
“‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’”
- US, countable, slang, uncountableA 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.”
- abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countableClipping of gelignite.
- colloquial, countable, uncountableA jelly shoe.
“Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […]”
- US, colloquial, countable, uncountableBlood.
- India, uncountableVitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.
“Under pinning with jelly in chunam — one square.”
- transitiveTo make into jelly.
- transitiveTo preserve in jelly.
- To wiggle like jelly.
- 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!”
Formsjellies(plural) · gelly(alternative) · jellies(present, singular, third-person) · jellying(participle, present) · jellied(participle, past) · jellied(past) · more jelly(comparative) · most jelly(superlative)