n.
(pl. jellies)
- chiefly Brit. a semi-solid dessert consisting of a sweet, fruit-flavoured liquid set with gelatin.
▸a small sweet made with gelatin.
- a similar preparation made with fruit or other ingredients as a condiment.
▸a savoury preparation made from gelatin and meat stock.
- any substance of a semi-solid consistency similar to jelly.
- Brit. informal a tablet of the drug Temazepam.
- Brit. informal term for gelignite.
v.
(jellies, jellying, jellied)
[
usu. as adj. jellied]
set (food) as or in a jelly.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from OFr. gelee ‘frost, jelly’, from L. gelata ‘frozen’.