jelly

Meanings

Noun

• A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set, known as "jello" in North America.
• A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Normally known as "jam" in Commonwealth English but see redcurrant jelly and jeely
• Short form of jelly coconut
• A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.
• Any substance or object having the consistency of jelly.
• A jellyfish.
• A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
• A large backside, especially a woman's.
• Short form of gelignite
• A jelly shoe.
• Blood.

Verb

• To wiggle like jelly.
• To make jelly.

Adjective

• Jealous.

Related

Similar words

• jello, Jell-O
• jam, marmalade
• aspic

Origin

• From Middle English jelyf, gelly, gelye, gelle, gelee, gele, from Old French gelee, from Old French geler, from Latin gelō.
• -y.