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jellybean

jellybean

9 1.0
A small bean-shaped candy with a chewy center and a bright hard shell
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒɛliˌbin/
translation icon : golosina
  • The children excitedly picked their favorite flavored jellybeans from the jar.
  • licorice jellybeans
  • jellybean jar
  • eat jellybeans

Examples

  • I love butterscotch jellybeans a lot.

    Grudge Match (2013)

  • They're throwing jellybeans at us.

    Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

  • Would you like a jellybean?

    Fiction book (2000)

  • You know those jellybeans I was eating?

    Tropic Thunder (2008)

  • Ever wonder how jellybeans are made?

    Academic text (2009)

  • - Wow, I love jellybeans.

    Tropic Thunder (2008)

  • She'd opened the bag of jellybeans to help herself.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • For my birthday can I have butterscotch jellybeans?

    Grudge Match (2013)

  • She offered the jellybeans to me casually as if they were nothing special at all.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • I love licorice jellybeans.

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

candy
vsjellybean
  • US
863 1.0

A small sweet made from sugar, often with chocolate or nuts

is more specific, meaning small bean-shaped sweets with a chewy colored shell
jelly bean
vsjellybean
15 1.0

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

is narrower, focusing on chewy center and hard brightly colored outer shell

How Chewy

taffy
  • US
16 4.2
gummy
32 1.0
jellybean
9 1.0
hard candy
  • US
7 1.0

Surface Forms

jellybean singular
jellybeans plural

Morphology

jellybean = jelly + bean (transparent) = jelly + bean

The compound is clearly formed from 'jelly' + 'bean', describing a small, bean-shaped jelly candy.

Etymology

Jellybean is a picture word made from jelly, meaning 'soft, sweet filling', and bean, meaning 'small and bean-shaped'. So a jellybean is a small 'bean-shaped' candy with a chewy center and a bright, hard shell.