Noun a selection of different jellies and jams He spread some jelly on his toast. a jar of grape jelly a peanut butter and jelly sandwich a meat glaze made with stock and jellyVerb this fruit juice is taking longer to jelly than I expected See More
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Noun
This helpful fungus will consume the jelly, preparing the seeds for storage. Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2022 Bogaerts takes a quick snack break -- a bite of a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich -- in between innings during Sunday's game against Toronto. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022 The jelly was, as most are, very sweet and tasted vaguely of grape mixed with a not-tart raspberry.Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022 Now the brand is stocked at Ulta, Target, and Amazon, and has a full range of acne-friendly products, like the Glamour Beauty Award-winning sheer SPF sunscreen, a dark-spot brightening wand, and a jelly cleanser.Glamour, 31 May 2022 This innovative jelly cleanser effortlessly removes makeup, excess oil, and pollutants without residue, leaving skin feeling smooth and clean. Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 May 2022 Given how much of the brain’s behavior remains a mystery — not least how consciousness emerges from three pounds of electric jelly — the aggregate achievements of such systems are remarkable.New York Times, 12 May 2022 Researchers in Monterey Bay have discovered a new species of deep-sea jelly that looks a little different from others that float through the ocean’s depths.Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022 But Matsumoto believes the jelly isn’t unique to the area. Sarah Parvinistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
Verb
The depths are a swirl of tapioca, agar-agar and basil seeds like a hundred tiny eyes, jellied on the outside with a crunch within. Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 24 May 2018 From here, the longest run in the region is a leg-jellying 15 kilometer, 2,000-meter descent back down to Gaislachkogl.CNN, 26 Oct. 2017 And according to TMZ, Miller will be noshing this first week on jellied toast for breakfast, hamburgers and fruit for lunch, sandwiches and wraps for dinner, and weekend meals of sloppy Joes and tacos. Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2017 Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts. Meredith Blake, latimes.com, 15 May 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English gelly, from Anglo-French gelee, from feminine of gelé, past participle of geler to freeze, congeal, from Latin gelare — more at cold