jelly

 
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒɛli/

noun (plural jellies)

  • 1 [mass noun] chiefly British 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: [as modifier]: a jelly mould
  • a substance with a jelly-like consistency made with fruit or other ingredients as a condiment: roast pheasant with redcurrant jelly
  • a savoury preparation with a jelly-like consistency made by boiling meat and bones.
  • any jelly-like substance: petroleum jelly
  • 2a small sweet made with gelatin: a box of fruit jellies
  • British informal a tablet of the drug Temazepam.
  • 4British informal gelignite.
  • 5 (jellies) jelly shoes.

verb (jellies, jellying, jellied)

[with object] (usually as adjective jellied)
  • set (food) as or in a jelly: jellied cranberry sauce jellied eels

Derivatives

jellify

verb (jellifies, jellifying, jellified)

jelly-like

adjective

Origin:

late Middle English: from Old French gelee 'frost, jelly', from Latin gelata 'frozen', from gelare 'freeze', from gelu 'frost'