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[ˈdʒɛli], (Noun)
Definitions:
- 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
(e.g: a bowl of jelly and custard)
- a small sweet made with gelatin
(e.g: a box of fruit jellies)
- gelignite.
- jelly shoes.
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late Middle English: from Old French gelee ‘frost, jelly’, from Latin gelata ‘frozen’, from gelare ‘freeze’, from gelu ‘frost’
[ˈdʒɛli], (Verb)
Definitions:
- set (food) as or in a jelly
(e.g: the eels are stewed and jellied)
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[ˈdʒɛli], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- jealous
(e.g: I'm so jelly that you were at the show)
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Origin
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early 21st century: abbreviation of jealous
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