jelly

(Commonwealth, countable, uncountable)A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.

His mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert.

Đồng nghĩa: jello

(Canada, US, countable, uncountable)(chiefly Canada, US) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.

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.

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.

Đồng nghĩa: jam

(Caribbean, Jamaica, abbreviation, alt of, clipping, countable, uncountable)Clipping of jelly coconut.

(countable, uncountable)A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.

(countable, uncountable)Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve.

calf's-foot jelly

(countable, uncountable)(zoology) A jellyfish.

(archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)(slang, now rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.

(US, countable, slang, uncountable)A large backside, especially a woman's.

(alt of, alternative, colloquial, countable, uncountable)Alternative spelling of gelly: clipping of gelignite.

(colloquial, countable, uncountable)A jelly shoe.

(US, colloquial, countable, uncountable)Blood.

(India, uncountable)Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.

(transitive)To make into jelly.

(transitive)To preserve in jelly.

To wiggle like jelly.

(slang)Jealous.

"I think other people make rude comments because they're jelly [jealous] bro," Schroer said. "We're just showing our love to other people."