jelly
a food preparation of a soft, elastic consistency due to the presence of gelatin, pectin, etc., especially fruit juice boiled down with sugar and used as a sweet spread for bread and toast, as a filling for cakes or doughnuts, etc.
any substance having the consistency of jelly.
Chiefly British. a fruit-flavored gelatin dessert.
a plastic sandal or shoe.
to bring or come to the consistency of jelly.
containing or made, spread, or topped with jelly or syrup; jellied: jelly apples.
Origin of jelly
1Other words from jelly
- jel·ly·like, adjective
Words Nearby jelly
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How to use jelly in a sentence
Roll the pork over the stuffing, like a jelly roll, until the seam is facing down and the fat back is on top.
Make Carla Hall’s Roasted Pork Loin With Cranberries | Carla Hall | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe second upped the ante, taking aim at “cray,” “jelly,” “literally,” “teehee,” and “totes.”
Feminist, Bae, Turnt: Time’s ‘Worst Words’ List Is Sexist and Racist | Samantha Allen | November 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn it are balanced a plate of eggs and toast, an open quart jar of grape jelly, and a beer mug full to the brim with orange juice.
Puddings were treats for birthdays and special occasions: chocolate cake, or jelly and ice-cream.
Available for both iOS and Android, jelly is definitely worth playing around with this weekend.
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When the machinery had been stopped, it was found that Mr. Jones's arms and legs were macerated to a jelly.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousTreated with hydrochloric acid, diluted with ten times its weight of water, it swells up into a jelly-like mass.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry | Thomas AndersonI wanted you to make calls with me and to help me with the currant jelly and to put those button-holes into my linen wrapper.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. DrinkwaterI learned how to make jelly from her old colored mammie, and heaps of things beside.
Those Dale Girls | Frank Weston CarruthI took that jelly to a crotchety old patient of mine who is boarding, and reviles all the jelly his nurse buys for him.
Those Dale Girls | Frank Weston Carruth
British Dictionary definitions for jelly (1 of 2)
/ (ˈdʒɛlɪ) /
a fruit-flavoured clear dessert set with gelatine: US and Canadian trademark: Jell-o
a preserve made from the juice of fruit boiled with sugar and used as jam
a savoury food preparation set with gelatine or with a strong gelatinous stock and having a soft elastic consistency: calf's-foot jelly
anything having the consistency of jelly
informal a coloured gelatine filter that can be fitted in front of a stage or studio light
to jellify
Origin of jelly
1Derived forms of jelly
- jelly-like, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for jelly (2 of 2)
/ (ˈdʒɛlɪ) /
British a slang name for gelignite
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