jelly

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   alternate form of jealous

   We are so jelly of our neighbors' new phones.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

   His mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert.

3. 3
   noun

   A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve.

   calf's-foot jelly

5. 5
   noun

   A jellyfish.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   A pretty girl; a girlfriend.

   ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’

7. 7
   noun

   A large backside, especially a woman's.

   I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance

8. 8
   noun

   A jelly shoe.

   Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […]

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 ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin -āta Early Medieval Latin gelāta Old French geleebor. Middle English gele English jelly Inherited from Middle English gele. Doublet of gelee.