jelly.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.
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.
calf's-foot jelly
A jellyfish.
A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
A large backside, especially a woman's.
Alternative spelling of gelly: clipping of gelignite.
A jelly shoe.
Blood.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gel- Latin gelū Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin gelō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin -āta Early Medieval Latin gelāta Old French geleebor. Middle English gele English jelly Inherited from Middle English gele. Doublet of gelee.
To make into jelly.
To preserve in jelly.
To wiggle like jelly.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gel- Latin gelū Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin gelō ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin -āta Early Medieval Latin gelāta Old French geleebor. Middle English gele English jelly Inherited from Middle English gele. Doublet of gelee.
Jealous.
Where this word comes from
Clipping of jealous + -y (informal adjective ending).
Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.
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