jelly
noun
[ ˈdʒɛli ]
• a fruit-flavoured dessert made by warming and then cooling a liquid containing gelatin or a similar setting agent in a mould or dish so that it sets into a semi-solid, somewhat elastic mass.
• "a bowl of jelly and custard"
• a small sweet made with gelatin.
• "a box of fruit jellies"
• gelignite.
• jelly shoes.
jelly
verb
• set (food) as or in a jelly.
• "the eels are stewed and jellied"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French gelee ‘frost, jelly’, from Latin gelata ‘frozen’, from gelare ‘freeze’, from gelu ‘frost’.
jelly
adjective
• jealous.
• "I'm so jelly that you were at the show"
Origin:
early 21st century: abbreviation of jealous.
