jellynoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɛli/

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  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.
  • Rincewind relaxed slightly, which was to say that he still made a violin string look like a bowl of jelly.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.

• 4

  Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve.

  • calf's-foot jelly
  • Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch.
• 5

  biologynatural-scienceszoologyA jellyfish.

  • Species of the phylum Cnidaria – the classic jelly – have existed in something close to their current form for at least 565 million years; Ctenophora, the comb jellies, are not much younger.
• 6

  archaicslangA pretty girl; a girlfriend.

  • ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’
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  slangA large backside, especially a woman's.

  • I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance
  • At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair.
• 8

  A jelly shoe.

  • Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […]

jellyverb詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɛli/

• 1

  To make into jelly.

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  To preserve in jelly.

• 3

  To wiggle like jelly.

jellyadj詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒɛli/

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  slangJealous.

  • If the guy wants to party and bang porn stars, and he's not hurting anyone who really cares? I think a lot of guys are just jelly! :-)
  • "I think other people make rude comments because they're jelly [jealous] bro," Schroer said. "We're just showing our love to other people."

jellynoun詞源 3/ˈd͡ʒɛli/

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  Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.

  • Under pinning with jelly in chunam — one square.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• jelly coconut
• gelly