jelly /ˈd͡ʒɛli/noun 11verb 3adjective 1forms 5 noun11 •(Commonwealth) a sweet soft food made by cooking gelatin with sugar and a flavor, often of fruit, and leaving it to cool until it holds a shape but still shakesHis mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert. •(US, Canada) 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. — 1945 •A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert. •Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve.calf's-foot jelly •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. — 2014 •(informal) A jelly shoe.Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […] — 2006 •(US, slang) 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 — 2001 •(US, informal) Blood. •(Caribbean) Clipping of jelly coconut. •(India) Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.Under pinning with jelly in chunam — one square. — 1862 •(slang, no longer used) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’ — 1931 verb3 •To make into jelly. •To preserve in jelly. •To wiggle like jelly. adjective1 •(slang) Jealous.If the guy wants to party and bang porn stars, and he's not hurting anyone who really cares? I think a lot of guys are just jelly! :-) — 2011 formsjellied · jellying · jellies · more jelly · most jelly
