jellyn.1
/ˈdʒɛli/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛli/ 1. † b. The substance gelatin n., which forms the basis of animal jellies. Obsolete.
a. An article of food, consisting chiefly of gelatin, obtained from various animal tissues, as skin, tendons, bones, etc., by boiling and subsequent cooling, having a characteristic soft stiff homogeneous consistence, and usually semitransparent. Also, in later use, a preparation of the juice of fruit, or other vegetable substances, thickened into a similar consistence. Also, a preparation of gelatin and fruit juices in cubes or crystals, from which table-jellies are made.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > jelly > [noun]
jelly1393
jelyfc1450
geill?a1500
jeela1774
1393 [see jelly-cloth n. at Compounds 2].
14.. J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Roxb.) 19 Of the shepe..Of whos hede boylled..Ther cometh a gely [MS. Lamb. 306 Iely] and an oynement.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 25 Gelye de chare.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 26 Gelye de Fysshe..Do as þou dedyst be þat oþer Gelye.
1525–6 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) I. 252 (note) All honest manner and good order,..in wine, brawn, chely, or other vitails.
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxii Tyll it begynne to waxe thycke [like] a gelly.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxv Spices, fruites, ielies, and banket viandes.
?1600 H. Plat Delightes for Ladies sig. D7 A white gelly of Almonds.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 37 Jelly which we make of the flesh of young piggs, calves feet, and a cocke.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 249 The Jelly or Juice of red Cabbage, bak'd in an Oven.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 252 Robs and Gellies of Garden Fruits.
c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 179 She desired some thick jelly made from chickens..to be served up.
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 76 Granulated jellies (Lemon, Orange..flavours).
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 76 Family Jelly Boxes, containing sufficient..for 12 quarts of Jelly.
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1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 414 A mucous matter, exceedingly soluble in warm water, which is known under the name of Jelly.
1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 13 Animal gelly which is easy of solution.
1839 G. Bird Elements Nat. Philos. 373 Jelly, solutions of gum, and albuminous fluids, allowed to evaporate spontaneously, so as to leave an indurated mass.
1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Jelly, common name for the substance gelatine.
c. A table-jelly.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > jelly > [noun] > sweet and other jellies
blancmange1377
manger blanc1574
moonshine1608
viper-jelly1702
saloop1712
jelly1728
salep1736
bread jelly1750
hartshorn jelly1769
arrowroot1822
table jelly1830
pineapple jelly1841
fruit-jelly1846
jujube paste1858
sponge1859
stone cream1861
pavlova1911
tracklement1954
1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 146 To make Riben Jelly..run the Jelly into little high Glasses..one Colour must be thorough cold before you put another on..colour red with Cochineal, green with Spinage..and sometimes the Jelly by it self.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xx. 522 A great variety of..excellent jellies for the table may be made with clarified isinglass, clear syrup, and the juice of..fresh fruit.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 650/1 Moulds for jellies, cakes, &c.
1916 Punch 6 Dec. 394/2 He shook all over like a badly-set jelly.
1930 C. Mackenzie April Fools vii. 152 Mr. Wenlow, balanced like a pale jelly on the edge of a chair in the drawing-room.
1974 Radio Times 4 Apr. 42/4 (advt.) Rowntrees strawberry flavour jelly.
2. figurative.1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 306 Lordship, once bringing therewith both Authority and Power unto Kings,..in these later dayes is become a meer jelly.
a. gen. Anything of the consistence of jelly; a gelatinous substance of any kind. enamel jelly (see quot. 1901); glycerin(e) jelly, any of various mixtures of glycerol and gelatin, principally used as mounting media in microscopy; cf. 2d; (more fully royal jelly), the secretion produced by honey bees to feed the larvae of the colony, esp. those that will become queens.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun] > gelatinous state > substance
jelly1605
jell1870
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 178 Take of..the ielly or sperme of frogges, which is to be found in standing waters.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 81 Seruant. My Lord, yet haue you one eye left... Corn. Least it see more preuent it, out vild Ielly [1623 gelly] . View more context for this quotation
a1631 J. Donne Progresse of Soule xxiii, in Poems (1633) 12 A female fishes sandie Roe With the males jelly, newly lev'ned was.
a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) iii. ii. 104 How my iellie quakes!
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 121 One would verily have thought, that..Stone had been broken or bruised whilst a Gelly..and so hardened.
1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle ii. 14 I could have beaten the Woman into a Jelly.
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 124 Those masses of animated jelly, which one sees at times scattered along the sea shore.
1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xix. 130 They will select one or more to be educated as queens; which..being fed with royal jelly for not more than two days..will come forth complete queens.
1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 203 The pus becomes so viscid as to form a tenacious jelly.
1859 Q. Jrnl. sc. Sci. 7 257 The bottle of glycerine jelly is put into a cup of hot water, until liquefied.
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 494/2 As a proof that any worker egg or young larva not more than three days old may be made to produce a queen, the experimenter has only to supply to such an one a portion of royal jelly.
1880 Amer. Monthly sc. Jrnl. 1 208/1 I have used such a medicine dropper to hold and apply glycerin jelly, with great satisfaction.
1886 F. R. Cheshire Bees & Bee-keeping I. vi. 82 In the case of the queen larva..that secretion, commonly, though, as I hold, erroneously, called royal jelly, is added unstintingly.
1887 W. Hillhouse tr. E. Strasburger Handbk. Pract. Bot. 206 If the hæmatoxylin stain is to be preserved in glycerine or glycerine-jelly.
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 718 Wheeler's Glycerine Jelly.
1901 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. s.v. Jelly Enamel-jelly, a soft material in a growing tooth between the epithelial investment and the calcifying cells of the young enamel.
1926 Bryologist 29 56 Take several brushfulls of jelly [sc. = glycerine jelly] from the bottle.
1954 C. G. Butler World of Honeybee iv. 46 It has come to be believed that any female honeybee larva..that is fed exclusively on royal jelly always develops into a queen bee.
1958 J. R. Baker Princ. Biol. technique xiii. 255 Preparations mounted in glycerine-jelly, balsam, or other commonly-used media.
1973 L. Hellman Pentimento (1974) 230 He was always having mysterious operations... He took royal jelly.
b. spec. Applied to the alga Nostoc, which appears as a jelly-like mass on dry soil after rain, and was popularly supposed to be the remains of a fallen ‘star’ or meteor.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > nostoc > individual plant of
starn-slime?c1475
jellya1642
fallen star1707
nostoc1852
a1642 J. Suckling Poems 48 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) As he whose quicker eye doth trace A false star shot to a mark't place, Do's run apace, And thinking it to catch, A gelly up do's snatch.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. Prelim. Exhort. ⁋7 Stand staring upon a Meteor or an inflamed gelly.
1656 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus 45 That the Starres eat,..that those falling Starres, as some call them, which are found on the earth in the form of a trembling gelly, are their excrement.
1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus ii. 17 The shooting Stars end all in purple Gellies.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar Ded. sig. A2v When I had taken up what I suppos'd, a fallen Star, I found I had been cozen'd with a Jelly: nothing but a cold dull mass, which glitter'd no longer than it was shooting.
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 266 Like that falling Meteor, there she lies, A Jelly cold on Earth.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 142 The Winter Mew... The gelatinous substance, known by the name of Star shot, or Star Gelly, owes its origin to this bird,..being nothing but the half digested remains of earth-worms, on which these birds feed.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 215 Nostoc..consists, when mature, of a large number of moniliform threads..imbedded in a glutinous jelly, and thus united into colonies.]
c. A jellyfish.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish)
nettle1601
sea-nettle1601
blubber1602
nettlefish1611
red nettle1611
squalder1659
sea-jellya1682
urticaa1682
carvel1688
sea-qualm1694
sea-bleb1700
acaleph1706
sea-blubber1717
Medusa1752
quarla1820
acalephan1834
medusite1838
jellyfish1841
naked-eyed medusa1848
slobber1849
sea-cross1850
sea-danger1850
sun squall1853
discophore1856
medusoid1856
starch1860
Discophoran1876
jelly1882
sea-blub1885
1882 Harper's Mag. Jan. 181/1 One of these large jellies was observed..moving lazily along, its disk encircled by a halo twenty-feet in diameter, while the train of gleaming tentacles stretched away two hundred feet or more.
d. A mixture of gelatin and glycerin used for mounting microscopic objects.
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1856 W. B. Carpenter Microscope v. 246 This composition [sc. Deane's Gelatine]..forms a stiff jelly; but it becomes perfectly fluid on the application of a very slight warmth.
1881 W. B. Carpenter scope (ed. 6) v. 253 When used, the jelly must be liquified by gentle warmth, and it is useful to warm both the slide and the cover-glass previously to mounting.
e. slang. A pretty girl; a girl-friend.
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the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun]
daughterOE
maidenOE
young womanOE
mayc1175
burdc1225
maidc1275
wenchc1290
file1303
virginc1330
girla1375
damselc1380
young ladya1393
jilla1425
juvenclec1430
young person1438
domicellea1464
quean1488
trull1525
pulleta1533
Tib1533
kittyc1560
dell1567
gillian1573
nymph1584
winklota1586
frotion1587
yuffrouw1589
pigeon1592
tit1599
nannicock1600
muggle1608
gixy1611
infanta1611
dilla1627
tittiea1628
whimsy1631
ladykin1632
stammel1639
moggie1648
zitellaa1660
baggagea1668
miss1668
baby1684
burdie1718
demoiselle1720
queanie?1800
intombi1809
muchacha1811
jilt1816
titter1819
ragazza1827
gouge1828
craft1829
meisie1838
sheila1839
sixteenc1840
chica1843
femme1846
muffin1854
gel1857
quail1859
kitten1870
bud1880
fräulein1883
sub-debutante1887
sweet-and-twenty1887
flapper1888
jelly1889
queen1894
chick1899
pusher1902
bit of fluff1903
chicklet1905
twist and twirl1905
twist1906
head1913
sub-deb1916
tabby1916
mouse1917
tittie1918
chickie1919
wren1920
bim1922
nifty1923
quiff1923
wimp1923
bride1924
job1927
junior miss1927
hag1932
tab1932
sort1933
palone1934
brush1941
knitting1943
teenybopper1966
weeny-bopper1972
Valley Girl1982
the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart > specifically a female sweetheart or girlfriend
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paramoura1450
fair ladya1470
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Tib1533
she1547
lady-love1568
jug1569
young lady1584
pigeon1592
love-lass1594
lass1596
dowsabel1612
swainling1615
lucky1629
Dulcinea1638
Lindabrides1640
inamorata1651
baby1684
best girl1691
lady friend1733
young woman1822
moll1823
querida1834
sheila1839
bint1855
tart1864
babykins1870
Dona1874
novia1874
fancy-girl1892
girlfriend1892
cliner1895
tootsy1895
dinah1898
best1904
twist and twirl1905
jane1906
kitten1908
patootie1918
meisie1919
bride1924
gf1925
jelly1931
sort1933
a bit (also piece) of homework1945
beast1946
queen1955
momma1964
mi'jita1970
her indoors1979
girlf1991
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 496/1 Jelly, or All jelly, a buxom, good-looking girl.
1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary iii. 28 Gowan goes to Oxford a lot... He's got a jelly there. He takes her to the dances.
1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary iv. 36 Don't think I spent last night with a couple of your barber~shop jellies for nothing.
f. A gelatinous contraceptive substance.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > contraception or birth control > [noun] > a contraceptive > gelatinous contraceptive substance
jelly1931
1931 F. W. S. Browne tr. T. H. van de Velde' Fertility & Sterility in Marriage iii. xiv. 348 The most important chemical contraceptives are the lubricant jellies.
1935 E. F. Griffith Mod. Marriage iv. 84 There are numberless chemical substances, made up either in the form of tablets or jellies... These are introduced into the vagina and are intended to kill the sperms.
1937 E. F. Griffith Voluntary Parenthood iii. 46 Many other devices have been invented to carry the chemical, such as jellies, ointments, foaming tablets and foaming jellies... All these solubles, jellies and tablets are unsatisfactory and if used by themselves are liable to fail in a high percentage of cases.
1943 in T. H. van de Velde Ideal Marriage (1947) 148 Arrangements have now been made for the manufacture of Dr. Van de Velde's Jellies (‘Eugam’): Lubricant, Contraceptive and Proconceptive.
1949 Blakiston's New Gould Med. Dict. 529/1 Contraceptive jelly, any one of a number of viscous substances introduced into the vagina to prevent conception.
1970 Which? Contraceptives Suppl. (ed. 3) 58 (heading) Spermicidal creams, jellies and pastes.
1972 Guardian 9 June 5/5 Her doctor..prescribed a diaphragm and a contraceptive jelly but the jelly was seized by the [Irish] customs authorities.
3. elliptical. A jelly-glass. (Cf. a salt.)
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > dessert-plate
jelly1709
jelly-glass1739
dessert-plate1769
salver1769
1709 London Gaz. No. 4595/4 There is lately brought over a great Parcel of..German Cut and Carv'd Glasses, viz. Jellies, Wine and Water Tumblers [etc.].
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
jelly-broth n.
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a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 156 Make a very good gelly-broth of Mutton.
jelly-dish n.
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c1480 Guild Acc. in Blades Caxton (1882) 79 ix dosen gely dishes.
jelly-glass n.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > dessert-plate
jelly1709
jelly-glass1739
dessert-plate1769
salver1769
1739 A. Stuart in Philos. Trans. 1737–8 (Royal Soc.) 40 8 A wine or jelly glass, or any such vessel tapering towards the bottom.
jelly-mould n.
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1860 All Year Round 22 Sept. 557 Looking at schools too often as if they were jelly-moulds, and the young mind a jelly.
jelly-pot n.
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c1865 G. Gore in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 233/1 Coat the inside of a glass jar or earthen jelly-pot with wax.
b.
jelly-boned adj.
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1912 D. H. Lawrence Let. 3 July (1962) I. 134 Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines.
1961 Spectator 17 Nov. 698 It is so spineless and ‘jelly-boned’.
jelly-like adj.
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth (1818) IV. 361 Studded with little jelly-like drops.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 512/2 The..jelly-like body of the Polypifera.
C2. † jelly-blood n. Obsolete clotted blood (obsolete). † jelly-poke n. Obsolete = jelly-bag n.
jelly baby n. a soft gelatinous sweet in the shape of a baby.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > gums or jelly beans
gum1827
gumdrop1860
jelly bean1905
jube1937
fruit gum1938
jelly baby1945
wine guma1953
1945 D. Thomas in Listener 20 Dec. 734/2 A bag of moist and many-coloured jelly-babies.
1950 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Bold i. 13 ‘Jelly babyth are nithe, too,’ said the small shrill voice behind them.
1972 Guardian 27 Dec. 9/1 A lady going round Europe buying..jelly babies.
jelly bean n. originally U.S. (a) a bean-shaped sweet with a gelatinous centre and a hard sugar coating; (b) slang an unpleasant, weak, or dishonest person; spec. a pimp.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > base person > [noun]
houndOE
hinderlingc1175
whelpc1330
vilec1400
beasta1425
dog bolt1465
shake-rag1571
vassal1589
brock1607
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
slubberdegullion1612
baseling1618
shag1620
shab1637
slabberdegullion1653
whiffler1659
hang-dog1693
reptile1697
Nobodaddyc1793
skunk1816
spalpeen1817
tiger1827
soap-lock1840
shake1846
white mouse1846
sweep1853
shuck1862
whiffmagig1871
scrubber1876
ullage1901
jelly bean1905
heel1914
dirty dog1928
crud1932
crut1937
klunk1942
crudball1968
scumbag1971
bawbag1999
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > gums or jelly beans
gum1827
gumdrop1860
jelly bean1905
jube1937
fruit gum1938
jelly baby1945
wine guma1953
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > pimp
putourc1390
panderc1450
mitchera1500
apple-squire?1536
squire of dames or ladies1590
apron-squire1593
bed-broker1594
pimp1600
pippin squire1600
petticoat-monger1605
smockster1608
underputter1608
broker-between1609
squire of the placket1611
squire1612
fleshmongera1616
cock bawd1632
whiskin1632
pimp-whiskin1638
bully1675
foot pimp1690
mutton-broker1694
pimp whisk1707
flash-man1789
panderer1826
bludger1856
whoremaster1864
mack1894
lover1904
jelly bean1905
procureur1910
P.I.1928
sweetback1929
sweet man1942
nookie-bookie1943
papasan1970
1905 Chicago Daily News 5 July 11/5 Jelly beans, assorted, per lb., 9 c.
1919 Dial. Notes 5 65 Mary is such a jelly-bean that she never gets her lessons.
1923 P. G. Wodehouse Adventures of Sally 223 What's the idea, you jelly bean?
1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 202 Are you hiding out in the woods with one of those damn slick-headed jellybeans?
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 63/2 Jelly bean, a pimp (ellyjay eanbay).
1940 C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter i. iii. 38 She..took from her shirt pocket a blue-colored jelly bean.
1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha i. 56 I went into the kitchen for jelly beans, which taste good after you've been blowing grass.
jelly-bellied adj.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [adjective] > types of
great-wombedc1325
wombedc1325
big-bellied?c1475
gorbellieda1529
tunnisha1529
bellieda1533
gorbelly1532
tun-bellied1551
out-bellied1570
paunch-bellied1586
paunchyc1586
big-bellied1592
round-bellied1606
gutty1607
tun-gutted1607
ventripotent1611
swag-bellieda1616
tun-grown1628
bottle-bellied1646
pot-bellied1647
belly-mountained1654
pauncheda1657
sag-bellied1665
barrel-bellied1694
ventricous1702
poke pudding1705
paunch-gutted1726
pot-gutted1731
paunchfula1763
pottle-bellied1777
tunnified1806
tun-likea1813
shad-bellied1832
ventricose1843
bow-windowed1849
bloated-bellied1871
barrel-stomached1884
stomachy1888
well-stomached1896
jelly-bellied1899
narrow-gutted1903
pus-gutted1915
great-stomached1944
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 214 He was..a Flopshus Cad, an Outrageous Stinker, a Jelly-bellied Flag-flapper (this was Stalky's contribution).
1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Nov. 753/2 The most jelly-bellied of them is Nabucet, a flowery and despicable humbug.
1950 M. Lowry Let. 23 June (1967) 213 She [sc. Russia]..lives in a state of constant ‘war effort’, with its attendant..‘jelly-bellied flag-flapping’.
jelly-belly n. a fat person.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having
porknellc1540
porkling1541
porridge belly1580
tallow catch1598
woolsack1598
candle-mine1600
trillibub1600
bauson1607
panguts1617
firkin1630
porker1665
poke pudding1706
pudsy1710
jolluxa1797
fatty1797
fattener1817
rotundity1824
tun-butt1829
stout party1855
pig1858
fatlinga1861
slob1861
bladder of lard1864
butterball1877
lard-bladder1891
jelly-belly1896
tub1897
barrel1909
flop1909
pussy-gut1909
gutbucket1919
Billy Bunter1939
endomorph1940
Fatso1944
slug1959
1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 44/1 Jelly-belly, a fat man or woman.
1903 C. Marriott House on Sands xvi ‘Ass!’ muttered Lanyon, with a diabolical grin. ‘Jelly-belly!’ ‘Eh?’ said Sir Peter, blankly. ‘Your health,’ replied Lanyon, gravely, raising his glass.
1935 L. A. G. Strong Tuesday Afternoon 88 If ever I want a ginger-chinned jelly-belly's advice,..I'll ask for it.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > coagulated blood
gore1563
gore blood1573
jelly-blood1582
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 85 Thee blackned gellyeblud, hardning, Shee skums with napkins.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iv. sig. Ff5 They softly wipt away the gelly blood From th'orifice.
jelly-cloth n. a cloth for straining jelly.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > jelly-bag
jelly-cloth1393
jelly-poke1516
geill-pock1570
jelly-bag?1600
1393 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 234 Et pro iij. vergis tele pro j gelicloth, xviijs.
jelly-crystals n. a crystalline powder used in the preparation of table-jellies.
jelly-dog n. slang a harrier (so called from being used to hunt hares, which are eaten with currant jelly); hence jelly-dogging, hunting with harriers.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > coursing
coursec1405
the leash1526
coursinga1552
jelly-dogging1889
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > harrier
harrier1542
currant-jelly dog1851
jelly-dog1889
1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 20 You..would prefer a gallop with the Quorn..to a day's ‘jelly dogging’.
1897 W. E. Norris Marietta's Marriage 4 We have no hounds hereabouts, except the jelly-dogs.
jelly-leaf n. Queensland hemp (see Sida n.).
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1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 203 Sida rhombifolia..‘Queensland Hemp’... ‘Native Lucerne’, is a common name, also ‘Jelly Leaf’.
jelly-lichen n. a lichen of gelatinous texture, such as Collema.
jelly-nut n. (see quot.).
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1885 A. Brassey In Trades 361 The cocoanuts are called ‘jelly-nuts’ before the flesh is ripe and has hardened, and while it still can be scraped off in the form of a delicious thin pulp.
jelly paint n. a non-drip paint with the consistency of jelly.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > paint > types of
oila1536
primera1650
wash1698
paint oil1727
flat tint1821
flat1823
flatting1823
distemper1837
kalsomine1840
oil filler1846
calcimine1864
tube-colour1881
Ripolin1899
gloss enamel1908
gloss paint1926
jelly paint1958
silicate paint-
1958 Listener 28 Aug. 323/1 If anyone were to ask me what has been the most interesting new development for the do-it-yourself painter over the last year or two I think I would say the dripless, or jelly, paints... Some complain that the jelly paints do not cover up the surface underneath.
jelly-plant n. an Australian seaweed: see quot. 1866.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding other vegetable materials > [noun]
agar-agar1769
wax-palm1830
jelly-plant1866
guar1882
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 473/1 Eucheuma speciosum is the Jelly-plant of Australia, and is one of the best species for making jelly, size, cement, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > jelly-bag
jelly-cloth1393
jelly-poke1516
geill-pock1570
jelly-bag?1600
1516–17 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 106 Pro una uln. panni lanei pro le gelypoke, 8d.
jelly powder n. (a) a kind of explosive (see quot. a1884); (b) a crystalline powder used in the preparation of table-jellies.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > jelly > [noun] > jelly powder
jelly powdera1884
Jell-O1934
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > other specific explosives
powdera1393
gunpowder1411
saltpetre1501
petre1586
halinitre1608
sal-prunella1664
petre-salt1708
xyloidin1838
gun-cotton1846
pyroxyle1847
pyroxylin1847
pyroglycerin1850
xylidine1850
nitroglycerine1852
gun-sawdust1853
picrate1854
trinitroglycerin1864
nitroleum1866
trinitrin1866
dynamite1867
giant-powder1872
dualin1874
fulgurite1874
rendrock1874
glyoxilin1875
lithofracteur1875
trinitro-cellulose1875
white gunpowder1875
gelatin1878
cotton-powder1879
vigorite1879
blasting gelatine1881
Hercules powder1881
saxifragine1881
tonite1881
dynamogen1882
forcite1883
haloxylin1883
jelly powdera1884
nitro-gelatinea1884
panclastite1883
potentite1883
sebastinea1884
kolloxylin1884
hellhoffite1885
rackarock1885
securite1886
kinetite1887
roburite1887
carbo-dynamite1888
fortis1889
gelatine dynamite1889
gelignite1889
seranine1889
straw-dynamite1889
carbonite1890
amberite1891
nitro powder1892
Schnebelite1893
westfalite1894
thorite1899
soup1902
ammonal1903
cheddite1908
trinitrotoluene1908
Samsonite1909
tolite1909
trinitrotoluol1910
trotyl1910
glyceryl trinitrate1912
T.N.T.1915
nitro1916
amatol1918
cyclonite1923
hexogen1923
lox1923
pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923
hexite1931
aurantia1940
jelly1941
RDX1941
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 511/2 Jelly powder, so called from its resemblance to calf's-foot jelly. It consists of 94% or 95% of nitro-glycerine and 5% or 6% collodion cotton, so mixed as to assume a gelatinous form.
1895 Army & Navy Co-op Soc. Price List 16 Table Jelly powder..in packets.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 Apr. 6/1 Lipton's and Shirriff's Jelly Powders, per packet..10¢.
jelly roll n. U.S. a cylindrical cake containing jelly or jam; frequently in transferred slang senses: (a) a lover; (b) sexual intercourse; (c) the female genitalia or vagina.
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the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun]
friendOE
lovendOE
lotebyc1330
lovera1382
honeyc1405
amorousa1492
belovera1492
amant1508
fantasera1547
mate1549
Romeo?1566
inamorato1592
amorite1597
amorettoc1600
inamorate1602
amorado1607
enamorate1607
amoroso1616
admirer1640
passionate1651
brother starling1675
sweethearter1854
lovebird1858
mateya1864
jelly roll1895
lovekin1896
main squeeze1896
lovekins1920
romancer1923
playmate1928
heartthrob1929
bae2006
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > vagina
quaintc1330
quivera1382
tailc1390
mousetrapc1500
cunnigar1550
placket1595
buttonhole1600
bumble broth1602
touch-hole1602
case1606
keyhole1607
vagina1612
nicka1625
nunquam satis1633
lock1640
twat1656
cockpit1658
Whitechapel portion?1695
tuzzy-muzzy1710
niche1749
can1772
bumbo1774
fuckhole1893
jelly roll1895
mole-catcher1896
manhole1916
vag1967
stank1980
pum-pum1983
punani1987
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > roll-shaped cake
jelly roll1895
Swiss roll1897
1895 ‘M. Ronald’ Cent. Cook Bk. xxi. 468 Jelly Rolls. Make a layer of Genoese..press it through a pastry bag in lines onto the tins... Before it has had time to cool, cut off the hard edges, spread it with..any jelly or jam, and roll it up evenly; then roll it in paper and tie, so it will cool in a round, even shape.
1914 W. C. Handy St. Louis Blues (song) I'm most wile 'bout mah Jelly-Roll.
1919 S. Williams & C. Williams (title of song) I ain't gonna give nobody none o' this jelly roll.
1927 Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. 22 13 By far the most common of these terms is jelly roll. As used by the lower class Negro it stands for vagina, or the female genitalia in general, and sometimes for sexual intercourse.
1927 Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. 22 14 Angels in heaven do the sweet jelly roll.
1929 T. Wolfe Look homeward, Angel (1930) xxii. 324 ‘What yo' want?’ she asked softly. ‘Jelly roll?’
1964 Amer. Folk Music Occas. No. 1. 12 Negro blues where women are sweet food (biscuit-roller..jelly roll baker).
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 265 If a woman is food, her sex organ is for consumption also, in the form of..cake- or jelly-roll.
1971 B. Malamud Tenants 205 Irene Lost Queen I miss To be between Your Jelly Roll.
1974 Amer. Speech 1971 46 79 Jelly-filled doughnut, bismarck, jelly roll.
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Short for jelly sandal n. at Additions.
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1979 Washington Post 7 Oct. e6/2 Things I wish I had brought: Rubber flip-flop sandals or jellies; rain poncho; large, nonleaking plastic jugs.
1991 Details June 27/2 First imported from Asia, jellies are widely available from street retailers nationwide.
2000 H. Simpson in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 558 ‘I'm not wearing my jellies,’ said Martin. ‘No way.’
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British slang. A capsule of the tranquillizer temazepam, reformulated as a gelatinous compound in order to prevent illicit intravenous injection. Usually in plural.
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1992 Herald (Glasgow) 2 June 6/6 [He] told the High Court in Glasgow..they were stopped by youths and one asked: ‘Do you want to buy jellies (the drug temazepam)?’
1994 I. Welsh Acid House 245 He explained to me that he'd been getting ‘too uptight’ about the flat getting trashed..so he had taken some jellies to ‘mellow out’.
2001 K. Sampson Outlaws (2002) 69 I'd never, ever go and see the quack about it. It's too easy to cop out and take Prozac and that, jellies or whatever.
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jelly fungus n. (a) the rust fungus Gymnosporangium sabinae (family Pucciniaceae), which has gelatinous telia; (b) any of various fungi which have a gelatinous fruiting body; also with distinguishing word (cf. orange jelly n. (c) at orange n.1 and adj.1 Compounds 2d).
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1861 Gardeners' Chron. 26 Jan. 76/3 Pear trees ruined by Savin? The Æcidium laceratum of the first caused by the jelly fungus of the last (Gymnosporangium)? How can you believe such folly?
1864 M. Plues Rambles in Search of Flowerless Plants xxvi. 269 The last order of the hymenium family is that of the Tremellini, or jelly fungi.
1983 Chinese Cuisine from Master Chefs China 227 White fungus, also called tremella and jelly fungus, is sold in dried form but has a jellylike consistency and appearance when cooked.
2018 @Lindsography 6 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 1 July 2019) Also saw this crazy bastard which is called toothed jelly fungus because uh it looks like that (Pseudohydnum gelatinosum, 100% real name).
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jelly sandal n. a sandal made from moulded plastic, often brightly coloured or translucent; cf. jelly shoe n. at Additions.
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1977 N.Y. Times 25 Sept. xi. 2 When..[she] goes around in thick bobby socks and plastic jelly sandals, some of her neighbors in Cold Spring Harbor raise their eyebrows.
2001 Times 14 Sept. ii. 16/1 I have been buying a lot of jelly sandals recently—I think that they are back. They cost about £1.50 a pair in Spain.
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jelly shoe n. = jelly sandal n. at Additions.
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1977 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Sept. 99/1 For the man with the claustrophobic foot and a fashion sense, there's a leather version of the plastic jelly shoe.
1996 Condé Nast Traveler June 180/3 I bought my first pair of jelly shoes in Cadaqués after stepping on a sea urchin.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
jellyn.2
/ˈdʒɛli/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛli/ slang.
Gelignite.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > other specific explosives
powdera1393
gunpowder1411
saltpetre1501
petre1586
halinitre1608
sal-prunella1664
petre-salt1708
xyloidin1838
gun-cotton1846
pyroxyle1847
pyroxylin1847
pyroglycerin1850
xylidine1850
nitroglycerine1852
gun-sawdust1853
picrate1854
trinitroglycerin1864
nitroleum1866
trinitrin1866
dynamite1867
giant-powder1872
dualin1874
fulgurite1874
rendrock1874
glyoxilin1875
lithofracteur1875
trinitro-cellulose1875
white gunpowder1875
gelatin1878
cotton-powder1879
vigorite1879
blasting gelatine1881
Hercules powder1881
saxifragine1881
tonite1881
dynamogen1882
forcite1883
haloxylin1883
jelly powdera1884
nitro-gelatinea1884
panclastite1883
potentite1883
sebastinea1884
kolloxylin1884
hellhoffite1885
rackarock1885
securite1886
kinetite1887
roburite1887
carbo-dynamite1888
fortis1889
gelatine dynamite1889
gelignite1889
seranine1889
straw-dynamite1889
carbonite1890
amberite1891
nitro powder1892
Schnebelite1893
westfalite1894
thorite1899
soup1902
ammonal1903
cheddite1908
trinitrotoluene1908
Samsonite1909
tolite1909
trinitrotoluol1910
trotyl1910
glyceryl trinitrate1912
T.N.T.1915
nitro1916
amatol1918
cyclonite1923
hexogen1923
lox1923
pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923
hexite1931
aurantia1940
jelly1941
RDX1941
1941 in S. J. Baker Dict. Austral. Slang
1948 D. L. G. Mundy There's Gold in Hills x. 128 Put a charge of ‘gelly’ under it.
1955 P. Wildeblood Against Law iii. 119 You could creep that drum six-handed, with jelly and all, and she'd think it was mice.
1960 Observer 24 Jan. 5/2 A hut where they knew gelly was kept.
1960 Observer 24 Jan. 5/3 There was always the gelly and oxy-acetylene if necessary.
1971 Guardian 28 Aug. 1/1 Stolen ‘gelly’ found.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
jellyadj.
/ˈdʒɛli/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛli/, Scottish English /ˈdʒɛlɪ/ Scottish. Now rare.
Good, worthy, excellent; having a high opinion of oneself, proud, haughty.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
faireOE
bremea1000
goodlyOE
goodfulc1275
noblec1300
pricec1300
specialc1325
gentlec1330
fine?c1335
singulara1340
thrivena1350
thriven and throa1350
gaya1375
properc1380
before-passinga1382
daintiful1393
principala1398
gradelya1400
burlyc1400
daintyc1400
thrivingc1400
voundec1400
virtuousc1425
hathelc1440
curiousc1475
singlerc1500
beautiful1502
rare?a1534
gallant1539
eximious1547
jolly1548
egregious?c1550
jellyc1560
goodlike1562
brawc1565
of worth1576
brave?1577
surprising1580
finger-licking1584
admirablea1586
excellinga1586
ambrosial1598
sublimated1603
excellent1604
valiant1604
fabulous1609
pure1609
starryc1610
topgallant1613
lovely1614
soaringa1616
twanging1616
preclarent1623
primea1637
prestantious1638
splendid1644
sterling1647
licking1648
spankinga1666
rattling1690
tearing1693
famous1695
capital1713
yrare1737
pure and —1742
daisy1757
immense1762
elegant1764
super-extra1774
trimming1778
grand1781
gallows1789
budgeree1793
crack1793
dandy1794
first rate1799
smick-smack1802
severe1805
neat1806
swell1810
stamming1814
divine1818
great1818
slap-up1823
slapping1825
high-grade1826
supernacular1828
heavenly1831
jam-up1832
slick1833
rip-roaring1834
boss1836
lummy1838
flash1840
slap1840
tall1840
high-graded1841
awful1843
way up1843
exalting1844
hot1845
ripsnorting1846
clipping1848
stupendous1848
stunning1849
raving1850
shrewd1851
jammy1853
slashing1854
rip-staving1856
ripping1858
screaming1859
up to dick1863
nifty1865
premier cru1866
slap-bang1866
clinking1868
marvellous1868
rorty1868
terrific1871
spiffing1872
all wool and a yard wide1882
gorgeous1883
nailing1883
stellar1883
gaudy1884
fizzing1885
réussi1885
ding-dong1887
jim-dandy1888
extra-special1889
yum-yum1890
out of sight1891
outasight1893
smooth1893
corking1895
large1895
super1895
hot dog1896
to die for1898
yummy1899
deevy1900
peachy1900
hi1901
v.g.1901
v.h.c.1901
divvy1903
doozy1903
game ball1905
goodo1905
bosker1906
crackerjack1910
smashinga1911
jake1914
keen1914
posh1914
bobby-dazzling1915
juicy1916
pie on1916
jakeloo1919
snodger1919
whizz-bang1920
wicked1920
four-star1921
wow1921
Rolls-Royce1922
whizz-bang1922
wizard1922
barry1923
nummy1923
ripe1923
shrieking1926
crazy1927
righteous1930
marvy1932
cool1933
plenty1933
brahmaa1935
smoking1934
solid1935
mellow1936
groovy1937
tough1937
bottler1938
fantastic1938
readyc1938
ridge1938
super-duper1938
extraordinaire1940
rumpty1940
sharp1940
dodger1941
grouse1941
perfecto1941
pipperoo1945
real gone1946
bosting1947
supersonic1947
whizzo1948
neato1951
peachy-keen1951
ridgey-dite1953
ridgy-didge1953
top1953
whizzing1953
badass1955
wild1955
belting1956
magic1956
bitching1957
swinging1958
ridiculous1959
a treat1959
fab1961
bad-assed1962
uptight1962
diggish1963
cracker1964
marv1964
radical1964
bakgat1965
unreal1965
pearly1966
together1968
safe1970
bad1971
brilliant1971
fabby1971
schmick1972
butt-kicking1973
ripper1973
Tiffany1973
bodacious1976
rad1976
kif1978
awesome1979
death1979
killer1979
fly1980
shiok1980
stonking1980
brill1981
dope1981
to die1982
mint1982
epic1983
kicking1983
fabbo1984
mega1985
ill1986
posho1989
pukka1991
lovely jubbly1992
awesomesauce2001
nang2002
bess2006
amazeballs2009
boasty2009
daebak2009
beaut2013
the mind > emotion > pride > [adjective]
highOE
rankOE
proudOE
quaint?c1225
stoutc1315
proud-heartedc1400
gobbedc1440
pridyc1485
high-minded?1503
superb1561
proud-heart1591
tiptoe1593
sublime1596
high-headed1599
magnificent1603
side1673
vaunty1724
perked-up1754
spicy1768
jelly1828
Latin1914
c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 181 Than gelly Johine come in a jak To feild quhair he wes feidit.
1573 J. Davidson Breif Commendatioun Vprichtnes xli He..was als meit for sic Office As outher gellie Jok or Johne.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 7 The woddes selfes..are verie jocund and jellie, and gif we myt speik it, in a maner peirles in pleisour.
1638 A. Cant Serm. in J. Kerr Covenants & Covenanters (1895) 103 Numbers mocked and thought themselves over jelly to come in.
a1758 A. Ramsay Epist. to Hamilton iii A jelly sum to carry on A fishery's designed.
1787 A. Shirrefs Jamie & Bess i. i The Provost o' the Town, A jelly man, well worthy of a crown.
1828 Courteous Knt. in Whitelaw Bk. Sc. Ballads (1875) 163 ‘Leave off your pride jelly Janet’, he said. ‘Use it not ony mair’.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xl. 282 An aunt o' the bride's was there to welcome the fowk; a richt jellie wife in a close mutch.
Derivatives
ˈjellily adv. worthily, excellently.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adverb]
fairlyOE
goodlyc1275
finec1330
properlyc1390
daintily?a1400
thrivinglya1400
goodlily?1457
excellent1483
excellently1527
excellently1529
curiously1548
jollilyc1563
admirably1570
beautifully1570
singularly1576
bravelyc1600
famouslya1616
manlya1616
primely1622
prime1648
eximiously1650
topping1683
egregiously1693
purely1695
trimmingly1719
toppinglya1739
surprisingly1749
capitally1750
brawly1796
jellily18..
stammingly1814
divinely1822
stunningly1823
rippingly1828
jam up1835
out of sight1835
first-rately1843
first rate1844
like a charm1845
stunning1851
marvellously1859
magnificently1868
first class1871
splendidly1883
sterlingly1883
tip-top1888
like one o'clock1901
deevily1905
goodo1907
dandy1908
bonzer1914
great1916
juicily1916
corkingly1917
champion1925
unbeatably1928
snodger1946
beaut1953
smashingly1956
groovily1970
awesome1984
18.. Bonny Bee-ho'm in Jamieson's Popular Ball. (1806) I. 189 And jellily dance the damsels, Blythe-blinkin' in your ee.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
jellyv.
/ˈdʒɛli/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛli/ 1. intransitive. To come to the consistence of jelly; to ‘set’ as jelly; to congeal, solidify, coagulate.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > be thick enough to retain form [verb (intransitive)] > become a jelly
jelly1601
gelatinate1794
gelatinize1809
jell1830
jellify1880
jeel1896
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 354 It will neuer iellie and grow to any thick consistence in Summer, vnlesse there be wax put into it.
1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 156 You may know by setting some in a Spoon to try if it will Jelly.
1771 W. Hewson in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 376 The blood..very soon jellies or coagulates.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 397 The secreted fluid..commonly..jellies upon exposure to heat.
2. transitive. To convert into jelly; to cause to ‘set’ or coagulate; to reduce to the consistence of jelly.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > give consistency to [verb (transitive)] > convert into jelly
jelly1601
jellify1803
gelatinate1828
gelatinize1843
jell1905
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 334 A liue Wolfe sodden in oile til the said oile be gellied to the height or consistence of a cerot.
1771 W. Hewson in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 374 In a few minutes the whole will be jellied or coagulated.
1876 G. Macdonald in Macmillan's Mag. XXXIV. 351 They, jellied with fear, have uttered no challenge.
Derivatives
ˈjellying n. and adj.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [adjective] > coagulating
jellying1673
clotting1784
the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [noun] > gelatinous state > becoming or making
jellying1673
gelatination1794
gelatinization1843
gelatinizing1853
jellification1881
1673 A. Marvell Appleton House The jellying stream compacts below.
a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1718) II. 194 The Jellying of some Parts of the Earth in Aqua Fortis.
1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. i. ii. 75 The jellying of fruits.
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