jellied


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jelly/ˈʤeli/
noun (pl. jellies)
  • 1 chiefly Brit. a semi-solid dessert consisting of a sweet, fruit-flavoured liquid set with gelatin.

    ■ a small sweet made with gelatin.

  • 2 a similar preparation made with fruit or other ingredients as a condiment.

    ■ a savoury preparation made from gelatin and meat stock.

  • 3 any substance of a semi-solid consistency similar to jelly.
  • 4 Brit. informal a tablet of the drug Temazepam.
verb (jellies, jellying, jellied) (usu. as adj. jellied) set (food) as or in a jelly.
– derivatives
jellification noun,
jellify verb (jellifies, jellifying, jellified).
– origin ME: from OFr. gelee ‘frost, jelly’, from L. gelata ‘frozen’.
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