¦ 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.
¦ 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'.