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What (who) is jelly - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Jellies; Jelly (food); Gelly; Jelly (disambiguation)
Jelly
·vi To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.
II. Jelly ·noun The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly.
III. Jelly ·noun Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like.
jelly
¦ noun (plural jellies)
1. chiefly Brit. a semi-solid dessert consisting of a sweet, fruit-flavoured liquid set with gelatin.
a small sweet made with gelatin.
2. a similar preparation made with fruit or other ingredients as a condiment.
a savoury preparation made from gelatin and meat stock.
3. any substance of a semi-solid consistency similar to jelly.
4. Brit. informal a tablet of the drug Temazepam.
5. Brit. informal term for gelignite.
¦ verb (jellies, jellying, jellied) [usu. as adjective jellied] set (food) as or in a jelly.
Derivatives
jellification noun
jellify verb (jellifies, jellifying, jellified).
Origin
ME: from OFr. gelee 'frost, jelly', from L. gelata 'frozen'.
jelly
n.
food made from boiled fruit juice
apple; blackberry; cherry; currant; grape; mint; peach; plum; quince; strawberry jelly
Examples of use of jelly
1. Jelly reward As a reward his delighted parents had given him a cube of raw orange fruit jelly.
2. Jelly Babies A jelly baby is more than just sugar and glucose syrup, gelatine and citric acid.
3. Tube workers cleared of ‘Jelly Baby racism‘ after 250,000 trial They were accused of making jokes about black jelly babies and threatening to bite their heads off.
4. "We weren‘t throwing jelly beans from the slip cordon.
5. He said: "I think they were joking about Jelly Babies.