jelly🔊

(Commonwealth) 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. +

(North America) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. +

(Jamaica) (jelly coconut)

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

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

(zoology) A jellyfish.

(rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.

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

(colloquial) (gelignite)

(colloquial) A jelly shoe.

(US) Blood.

To make into jelly.

To preserve in jelly.

To wiggle like jelly. {{rfex|en}}

(slang) {{cap|jealous}}.

(India) {{cap|vitrified}} brick refuse used as metal in building roads.