peanut-butter-and-jelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peanut-butter-and-jellies
Senses: examples: text: Sam was so happy he ate two peanut-butter-and-jellies, and a glass of milk, and chocolate pudding with cream, and five Lorna Doones.
ref: 1970, Judith Viorst, Try It Again, Sam: Safety When You Walk, New York, N.Y.: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, →LCCN:
text: I have undergone over 17 of these therapeutic treatments and if you get hungry, I left some peanut-butter-and-jellies in the fridge.
ref: 1971 May, Elenor Grozney, “Letters”, in National Lampoon, volume 1, number 14, New York, N.Y.: National Lampoon, Inc., page 6, column 3:
text: Sometimes they drift in from the Yukon and other far places, come in and sit down at the kitchen table, want a glass of milk and a peanut-butter-and-jelly, I oblige, for old times’ sake.
ref: 1979, Donald Barthelme, “Aria”, in The New Yorker, volume LV, New York, N.Y.: The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., →ISSN, page 37, column 1:
text: She made some peanut-butter-and-jellies, wrapping them in aluminum foil—she wondered whatever happened to wax paper, like her mother used to use—and put them in a paper bag along with some beers and some DDPs.
ref: 1982, Robert Mayer, Midge & Decker, New York, N.Y.: A & W Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 227:
text: Some of the students pass up the Sloppy Joes for chicken salad sandwiches, or decide to make their own peanut-butter-and-jellies.
ref: 1983, Emily Greenspan, “The Education of the Superstar”, in Little Winners: Inside the World of the Child Sports Star, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 139:
text: “Oh, yes. Up from the Brownies. We all remember peanut-butter-and-jellies very well. No picnic without them.”
ref: 1986, Peter De Vries, Peckham’s Marbles, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 39:
text: You can feast on turkey tacos for $4.50, vegetarian sandwiches for $4, and peanut-butter-and-jellies for $1.75.
ref: 1992, Berkeley students in cooperation with the Associated Students of the University of California, On the Loose in the Pacific Northwest & Alaska (The Berkeley Guides: The Budget Traveler’s Handbook), New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 143:
text: The men greedily unwrapped each sandwich, tossing the peanut-butter-and-jellies into a trash barrel along with the Oreos, Fig Newtons, and carrot strips. Baby food. These were grown men with serious appetites.
ref: 1999, Joe Karson, “City”, in Dining with Hitler & Hemingway, Fairbanks, Ak.: Plumb Bob Press, →ISBN, page 80:
text: Until I was much older and had started thinking for myself more, I followed Ferrell's hand-me-down recipe and swirled the peanut butter and jelly before spreading it on both crackers and white bread. I still love peanut-butter-and-jellies, but now my recipe is my own creation.
ref: 2000, Debra Calhoun Jones, editor, Swamp Gravy: Folk Tales of South Georgia, volume IV (Claiming Kin), Colquitt, Ga.: Sobek Press, →ISBN, page 79:
text: “And I’ll make more of those peanut-butter-and-jellies. I’ll eat with him. It’ll help us bond.”
ref: 2012, Marian Hailey-Moss, Mark Wilk, A Dog Named Randall, North Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 15:
text: I’ll bring the peanut-butter-and-jellies. It’ll be like camp.
ref: 2012, Patsy Garlan, Sea Change: The Uncertain Realm of the Married, Lompoc, Calif.: Summerland Publishing, →ISBN, page 68:
text: From birth, Christian had a sense of flair: In grammar school he’d cut our peanut-butter-and-jellies into crustless tea sandwiches and include a fluted paper plate in our lunch bags, indifferent to mockery.
ref: 2015 April, Courtney Hodell, “And Baby Makes Three”, in Elle, New YorK, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, Inc., page 292:
glosses: Alternative form of peanut butter and jelly (“sandwich”).