jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛl.i/
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: jellies
form: gelly
Etymology: 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-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin gelō
Latin -ātus
Latin -āta
Early Medieval Latin gelātabor.
Old French geleebor.
Middle English gele
English jelly
Inherited from Middle English gele, borrowed from Old French gelee, borrowed from Early Medieval Latin gelāta, from Latin gelō + -āta.
 Doublet of gelee.
Senses: examples: text: His mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert.
synonyms: jello
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1945, Fannie Merritt Farmer and Wilma Lord Perkins (revisor), The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Eighth edition
text: 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.
ref: 1975, Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking, 5th revision
synonyms: jam
glosses: A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.
glosses: Clipping of jelly coconut.
glosses: A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.
examples: text: calf's-foot jelly
text: Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch.
ref: 1821, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 8, page 67:
text: […] 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.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 24”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC:
glosses: Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, volume 36, number 5:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A jellyfish.
examples: text: ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 25:
glosses: A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
examples: text: I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance
ref: 2001, “Bootylicious”, in Survivor, performed by Destiny's Child:
text: At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair.
ref: 2001, George Dell, Dance Unto the Lord, page 94:
glosses: A large backside, especially a woman's.
glosses: Clipping of gelignite.
examples: text: Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […]
ref: 2006, David L. Marcus, What It Takes to Pull Me Through:
glosses: A jelly shoe.
glosses: Blood.
Synonyms: sense: dessert made by boiling gelatin
word: jello
sense: dessert made by boiling gelatin
word: Jell-O
sense: fruit preserve
word: jam
sense: fruit preserve
word: marmalade
sense: gelatinous meat product
word: aspic
Derived terms: astral jelly
blood jelly
bloodybelly comb jelly
box jelly
bread jelly
coconut jelly
combjelly
comb-jelly
comb jelly
crystal jelly
giant phantom jelly
golden jelly fungus
grape jelly
grass jelly
hair jelly
hedgerow jelly
jellification
jelliform
jellify
jellium
jelloid
jelly baby
jellybag
jelly bean
jelly belly
jelly blubber
jelly bracelet
jellybrain
jelly cake
jellycoat
jelly-coconut
jellycopter
jelly donut
jelly doughnut
jelly ear
jelly fish
jelly-fish
jellyfish
jelly fungus
jelly glass
jellygraph
jellyish
jelly leaf
jellylike
jelly of Wharton
jelly palm
jelly plant
jelly powder
jelly roll
jelly roll pan
jelly shot
jelly tooth
jellyvore
jellyvorous
meat jelly
mint jelly
moon jelly
peachy keen jelly bean
peanut-butter-and-jelly
peanut butter and jelly
pepper jelly
petroleum jelly
redcurrant jelly
royal jelly
screaming jelly babies
sea jelly
star jelly
toothed jelly fungus
toothed jelly mushroom
vegetable jelly
vitreous jelly
Wharton's jelly
Related terms: gel
gelatin