jelly
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- noun
- /ˈdʒɛli/
- UK
:
gelatina
- At lunch, she gives me peanut butter and jelly with the crusts on.
Oh my God, the Jelly filled long Johns.
- Oh my God, the Jelly filled long Johns.
- I we're going to give Frank and Joe's Jelly cups boom.
- And even the Jelly is like sweeter, fresher.
Examples
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For dessert, she served a bowl of jelly made with fresh strawberries.
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We give them free peanut butter and jelly, and then they listen to my new, great ideas.
Fiction book (1996) -
I also picked up some lovely jelly doughnuts on the way in from the airport.
Fiction book (1993) -
I made you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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It's just kind of like, like, gooey white Jelly without very much flavor.
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Brigitte ate only smooth peanut butter with grape jelly on the same pulpy bread that Sasha liked.
Fiction book (2000) -
During the summer picnic, everyone enjoyed the sweet jelly spread on their toast.
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He added a layer of jelly to the top of the cake for extra flavor.
Synonyms
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A sweet spread made by boiling crushed fruit with sugar
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A sweet, fruit flavored dessert made from a powder that becomes soft and wobbly
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A sweet chilled dessert made from flavored gelatin
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A sweet or savory jelly made from the clear substance that makes food firm
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A sweet spread made from grape juice and sugar
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A sweet wobbly dessert made by mixing jelly powder with water or juice
A clear sweet jelly made from fruit juice and sugar
A sweet clear spread made from apple juice for bread or cooking
A sweet, slightly tart jelly from crabapples for spreading on toast
A sweet spread you make by cooking fruit with sugar, often with pieces of fruit left
Compounds
- Specialized
A small transparent sea animal like a jellyfish that moves by beating eight rows of tiny hairs
A soft, oily product you put on skin and on machine parts to make them move smoothly
- Specialized
A soft clear substance used to hold and protect small samples on microscope slides
- UK
A small egg-shaped sweet made of soft jelly with a sugar coating often eaten at Easter
A cold savory jelly made from pig's feet and other pork parts that becomes firm when cooled
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Jelly comes from French gelée and the root gel- meaning 'to set' or 'become thick', the same idea you find in gelatin. So a dessert called jelly is a soft, wobbly food that was once a liquid and then 'set' into a gel.