Jelly

Etymology
gelee:, from geler:, from gelu:.

Noun

 * 1)  A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set
 * 2) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin
 * 3) * 1945, Fannie Merritt Farmer and Wilma Lord Perkins revisor, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Eighth edition:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1975, Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, The Joy of Cooking, 5th revision:
 * Jelly has great clarity. Two cooking processes are involved. First, the juice alone is extracted from the fruit. Only that portion thin and clear enough to drip through a cloth is cooked with sugar until sufficiently firm to hold its shape. It is never stiff and never gummy.
 * 1)  Short for jellyfish.
 * 2)  A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
 * 3) * 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 25:
 * ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He's got a jelly there.’
 * 1) 🇺🇸 A large backside, especially a woman's.
 * 2) * 2001, Destiny's Child, “Bootylicious” (song)
 * I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance
 * 1) * 2001, George Dell, Dance Unto the Lord, page 94:
 * At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair.
 * 1)  Short for gelignite.
 * 2)  A jelly shoe.
 * 3) * 2006, David L. Marcus, What It Takes to Pull Me Through:
 * Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes

Synonyms

 * jello, Jell-O

Derived terms

 * comb jelly
 * jellification
 * jellify
 * jelly baby
 * jelly bean
 * jelly bracelet
 * jellyfish
 * jellylike
 * royal jelly

Translations

 * Catalan:
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 * French:
 * German:, Sulz
 * Greek: ζελές, ζελέ
 * Hungarian:
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 * Japanese: (zerī)


 * Latvian: želeja
 * Lithuanian: želė, drebučiai
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 * Czech:
 * French: gelée
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 * Catalan: melmelada
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Gelle
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (jamu)


 * Latin: cylon
 * Mandarin:
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 * Romanian: marmeladă
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, confitura
 * Swedish:, marmelad


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 * French: gros cul
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Verb

 * 1) To wiggle like jelly.
 * 2) To make jelly.

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