Definition of "jelly" in 英语

noun

1. (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.

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

2. (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.

3. (Caribbean, Jamaica) Clipping of jelly coconut.

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

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

   • calf's-foot jelly

6. (zoology) A jellyfish.

7. (slang, now rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.

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

9. (colloquial) Clipping of gelignite.

10. (colloquial) A jelly shoe.

11. (colloquial, US) Blood.

verb

1. (transitive) To make into jelly.

2. (transitive) To preserve in jelly.

3. To wiggle like jelly.

adjective

1. (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."

noun

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