jelly
pronunciation
How to pronounce jelly in British English:
UK [ˈdʒeli]
How to pronounce jelly in American English:
US [ˈdʒeli]
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- Noun:
- a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit
- an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods
- a substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods
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- Verb:
- make into jelly
Word Origin
- jelly
- jelly: [14] The central idea of ‘coagulation’ takes us back to the ultimate source of jelly, the Latin verb gelāre ‘freeze’ (which also gave English congeal [14]). Its feminine past participle gelāta was used in Vulgar Latin for a substance solidified out of a liquid, and this passed into Old French as gelee, meaning both ‘frost’ and ‘jelly’ – whence the English word. (Culinarily, jelly at first denoted a savoury substance, made from gelatinous parts of animals; it was not really until the early 19th century that the ancestors of modern fruit jellies began to catch on in a big way.) The Italian descendant of gelāta was gelata.From it was formed a diminutive, gelatina, which English acquired via French as gelatine [19]. Gel [19] is an abbreviation of it.=> cold, congeal, gel, gelatine
- jelly (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French gelee "a frost; jelly," noun use of fem. past participle of geler "congeal," from Latin gelare "to freeze," from gelu "frost" (see cold (adj.)).
- jelly (v.)
- c. 1600, from jelly (n.). Related: Jellied; jellying.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Here are a few things we 'd like to see in jelly bean .
- 2. Peanut butter and jelly is an all-time american favorite .
- 3. Mix together equal parts borax and either syrup or jelly . Then , place where the ants will find it .
- 4. Shanghainese awoke on friday to stories in state-owned media denying that their beloved dumplings are being made with commercial gelatin rather than homemade pigskin jelly .
- 5. The decision was made after a 23-year-old student was arrested during the infamous jelly wrestling contest for punching a spectator .