jelly

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈd͡ʒɛli/    美 /ˈd͡ʒɛli/|/ˈd͡ʒeli/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. Commonwealth,countable,uncountable
    — His mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert.
  2. Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads. India,uncountable
    — Under pinning with jelly in chunam — one square.
  3. A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Canada,US,countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  4. Clipping of jelly coconut. Caribbean,Jamaica,abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
  5. A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert. countable,uncountable
  6. Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve. countable,uncountable
    — calf's-foot jelly
  7. A jellyfish. countable,uncountable
    — Species of the phylum Cnidaria – the classic jelly – have existed in something close to their current form for at least 565 million years; Ctenophora, the comb jellies, are not much younger.
  8. A pretty girl; a girlfriend. archaic,countable,slang,uncountable
    — ‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’
  9. A large backside, especially a woman's. US,countable,slang,uncountable
    — I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance
  10. Alternative spelling of gelly: clipping of gelignite. alt-of,alternative,colloquial,countable,uncountable
  11. A jelly shoe. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes […]
  12. Blood. US,colloquial,countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To make into jelly. transitive
  2. To preserve in jelly. transitive
  3. To wiggle like jelly.
形容词 adj.
  1. Jealous. slang
    — If the guy wants to party and bang porn stars, and he's not hurting anyone who really cares? I think a lot of guys are just jelly! :-)

词形变化

jellies plural gelly alternative,archaic jellies present,singular,third-person jellying participle,present jellied participle,past jellied past gelly alternative,archaic more jelly comparative most jelly superlative gelly alternative,archaic gelly alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
astral jelly blood jelly bloodybelly comb jelly box jelly bread jelly coconut jelly comb jelly combjelly comb-jelly crystal jelly giant phantom jelly golden jelly fungus grape jelly grass jelly hair jelly hedgerow jelly jellification jelliform jellify jellium jelloid jelly baby jellybag jelly bean jelly belly jelly blubber jelly bracelet jellybrain jelly cake jellycoat jelly-coconut jellycopter jelly donut jelly doughnut jelly ear jelly fish jellyfish jelly-fish jelly fungus jelly glass jellygraph jellyish jelly leaf jellylike jelly of Wharton jelly palm jelly plant jelly powder jelly roll jelly roll pan jelly shot jelly tooth jellyvore jellyvorous meat jelly mint jelly moon jelly nail jelly to a wall peachy keen jelly bean peanut butter and jelly peanut-butter-and-jelly pepper jelly petroleum jelly redcurrant jelly royal jelly saucer jelly screaming jelly babies sea jelly star jelly toothed jelly fungus toothed jelly mushroom vegetable jelly vitreous jelly Wharton's jelly
相关词
gel gelatin

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gel-
Latin gelū
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin gelō
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Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin -āta
Early Medieval Latin gelāta
Old French geleebor.
Middle English gele
English jelly
Inherited from Middle English gele. Doublet of gelee.
词源 2
Clipping of jealous + -y (informal adjective ending).
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