grape jelly
5
1.0
- noun
- /ɡreɪp ˈdʒɛli/
- US
:
gelatina de uva
- I'm all in favor of "to each his (or her) own," but why would you ruin perfectly good scrapple with grape jelly?
- butter and grape jelly
- peanut butter and grape jelly
- jar of grape jelly
Examples
-
I had made us peanut butter sandwiches with grape jelly and had set them on the dining room table for dinner.
Fiction book (1995) -
Samson spread peanut butter across one slice of bread, then grape jelly across another.
Fiction book (2000) -
Oh, I love grape jelly
-
The glass was once a grape jelly jar.
Fiction book (1991) -
For the first time, I got to see what was in them... peanut butter and grape jelly.
Blog text (19) -
They probably don't even have Welch's grape jelly in Nigeria.
Fiction book (1992) -
An empty milk carton sat on the kitchen table, and a jar of grape jelly with the cap still on stood on the table beside it.
Fiction book (1996) -
Brigitte ate only smooth peanut butter with grape jelly on the same pulpy bread that Sasha liked.
Fiction book (2000) -
It was said George Bush would ask for a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich at some of his parties, where they served up expensive chef-prepared meals for his distinguished guests.
Blog text (32) -
I love spreading grape jelly on my breakfast toast every morning.
Synonyms
76
1.0
A sweet spread made by boiling crushed fruit with sugar
39
1.0
A soft wobbly dessert made with gelatin and fruit juice
A sweet spread you make by cooking fruit with sugar, often with pieces of fruit left
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a jelly made from grapes' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'grape' (the fruit/source) with 'jelly' (a sweet, clear preserve); the modifier specifies the flavor/source of the head noun. This noun–noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The name grape jelly comes from making jelly from grape juice. Cooks boil the juice with sugar until it becomes a clear, thick 'spread', so grape jelly means the sweet thing you put on toast or in sandwiches.