jelly meaning
EN
[ˈdʒɛl.i] [-ɛli] 
US WJelly
- Jelly may refer to:
- Objects:
- Jelly (fruit preserves), a clear or translucent fruit spread or preserve referred to as jam in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other countries
- Gelatin, a translucent substance extracted from the collagen inside animals' connective tissue, made from bones and pig skin
- Gelatin dessert, referred to as jelly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other countries
- Temazepam, a powerful hypnotic drug, street name "Jellies"
- Jellyfish, also known as jellies
- NounPLjellies
- (New Zealand, Australia, Britain) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.
- (Canada, US) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.
- A similar dish made with meat.
- calf's-foot jelly
- (zoology) A jellyfish.
- (slang, now rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
- (US, slang) A large backside, especially a woman's.
- (colloquial) Short for gelignite.
- (colloquial) A jelly shoe.
- (New Zealand, Australia, Britain) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.
- VerbSGjelliesPRjellyingPT, PPjellied
- AdjectiveCOMmore jellySUPmost jelly
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- I have also seen fallen birch logs hosting toothed jelly fungus and witch's butter, both of which are useful edible fungi.
- Fungi continue their patient, determined work, slowly consuming the cellulose over the years, like the helpful toothed jelly mushroom, a nutrientrich fungus that tastes something like tofu.
- All can find a stall selling something familiar – and maybe something new to try, whether it’s yams or plantain, dhania or jellied eels.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.
- On Tuesday evening CNN had found two suitemates who recounted some of the most chilling details about the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, including that he had an imaginary girlfriend named Jelly.
- Large and square-headed, fatuously complacent, pot-bellied, spade-handed and dumpy-footed, for all the world presenting the appearance of animated jelly.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of jelly in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "jelly" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb.