Meaning of Jelly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   Commonwealth, countable, uncountable
2. Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.
   India, uncountable
3. A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.
   Canada, US, countable, uncountable
4. Clipping of jelly coconut.
   Caribbean, Jamaica, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
5. A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.
   countable, uncountable
6. Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve.
   countable, uncountable
7. A jellyfish.
   countable, uncountable
8. A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
   archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
9. A large backside, especially a woman's.
   US, countable, slang, uncountable
10. Clipping of gelignite.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable
11. A jelly shoe.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
12. Blood.
    US, colloquial, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

“Jelly has great clarity. Two cooking processes are involved. First, the juice alone is extracted from the fruit. Only that portion thin and clear enough to drip through a cloth is cooked with sugar until sufficiently firm to hold its shape. It is never stiff and never gummy.”

“calf's-foot jelly”

“Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch.”

“[…] some of the profounder scholars are altogether too great for locomotion, and are carried from place to place in a sort of sedan tub, wabbling jellies of knowledge that enlist my respectful astonishment.”

“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.”

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

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

“At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair.”

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

“Under pinning with jelly in chunam — one square.”

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