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jelly

jelly

2 9.3
Feeling jealous of someone or something
  • adjective
  • /ˈdʒɛli/
  • Slang
translation icon : envidioso
  • You're gonna push him until his arms are jelly.

Examples

  • She was jelly of his promotion because she had been working harder than anyone else.

  • We're still jelly!

  • The girls are Jelly, the girls are Jelly, the girls are Jelly, Jelly smoking.

  • - Jessica will be totally jelly when she sees me with this guy.

  • Jody will be so jelly.

  • If a man like Andre bowed, kissed my hand, and paid me court, I would likely be jelly in his hands.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • They're quaking like they're jelly!

  • But inside, you're jelly.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • But there's a quote in there where he says we're all Jelly roll now, We're all sloppy, complicated and contradictory.

  • I couldn't help but feel jelly when my friend won the contest without even trying.

Antonyms

1.0

Feeling pleased and content

87 1.0

Feeling happy and satisfied with what you have

Compounds

15 1.0

A small bean-shaped candy with a soft sweet center and a hard sugar shell

A soft round fried sweet bread filled with jam

5 1.0

A sweet spread made from grape juice and sugar

A soft, greasy substance used to protect skin and as a lubricant

royal jelly
  • Specialized
2 6.8

A creamy food made by worker bees and fed to bee larvae and the queen

1 3.5

A thin sponge cake spread with jam and rolled into a spiral

1 3.7

Soft and wobbly with a thick, partly solid feel

1 9.9

A jelly made from boiled calves' feet used in traditional dishes

jelly roll
  • Jargon
1 4.2

A roll of cut cotton strips used for quilting

comb jelly
  • Specialized
8.8

A small transparent sea animal like a jellyfish that moves by beating eight rows of tiny hairs

A sweet, slightly tart jelly from crabapples for spreading on toast

A sweet clear spread made from apple juice for bread or cooking

A soft, oily product you put on skin and on machine parts to make them move smoothly

glycerin jelly
  • Specialized
4.6

A soft clear substance used to hold and protect small samples on microscope slides

2.2

A small egg-shaped sweet made of soft jelly with a sugar coating often eaten at Easter

jelly fungus
  • Specialized
7.9

A soft, jelly-like growth on dead wood that some people eat

A cold savory jelly made from pig's feet and other pork parts that becomes firm when cooled

How Jealous

possessive
24 3.8
jelly
  • Slang
2 9.3
envious
51 2.4

Surface Forms

jelly positive

Etymology

Jelly meaning 'jealous' is a modern slang short form of jealous, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of someone saying 'I'm jelly' to mean 'I'm jealous' or I want what they have.