Meaning of jellylike | Babel Free

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Resembling or characteristic of jelly.

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“1895, Mark⟳ Twain, “How to Tell⟳ a Story,” in Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches, edited by Tom Quirk, Penguin, 1994, originally published in The Youth’s Companion, 3 October, 1895, The teller is innocent and happy and pleased with himself, and has to stop⟳ every little while to hold⟳ himself in and keep⟳ from laughing outright; and does hold⟳ in, but his body quakes in a jelly-like way with interior chuckles; and at the end⟳ of the ten minutes the audience have⟳ laughed until they are exhausted, and the tears are running down their faces.”

“However quickly the water was used, there were always larvae of some sort⟳ on its surface, jumpy jellylike whiskery things, perfection in their way.”

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