Broad vs Jelly - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between broad and jelly

is that broad is wide in extent or scope while jelly is (slang) jealous.

As nouns the difference between broad and jelly

is that broad is (dated) a prostitute, a woman of loose morals while jelly is (new zealand|australia|british) a dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.

As a verb jelly is

to wiggle like jelly.

broad

English

Adjective

(er)

Wide in extent or scope.

three feet broad

the broad expanse of ocean

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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 19, author=Josh Halliday, work=the Guardian

, title= Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , passage=Julia Farrington, head of arts at Index on Censorship, argues that extra powers to ban violent videos online will "end up too broad and open to misapplication, which would damage freedom of expression".}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

* Bishop Porteus

broad and open day

Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained.

* John Locke

a broad mixture of falsehood

Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

* D. Daggett

The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.

* E. Everett

in a broad , statesmanlike, and masterly way

Plain; evident.

a broad hint

Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

* Shakespeare

as broad and general as the casing air

(dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.

a broad''' compliment; a '''broad''' joke; '''broad humour

(of an accent) Strongly regional.

(Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Antonyms

* * (Regarding body width) * (Not palatalized)

Derived terms

* breadth * broaden * broad across the beam * broad in the beam * broadscale * broad strokes * broadsword * broad church * broadcloth * broad agreement

Noun

(en noun)

(dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.

(US) A woman or girl.

Who was that broad I saw you with?

(UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

(Knight)

Synonyms

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Anagrams

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jelly

English

(wikipedia jelly)

Alternative forms

* gelly (obsolete)

Etymology 1

(etyl) gelee, from .

Noun

(New Zealand, Australia, British) A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.

(label) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.

* 1945 , (Fannie Merritt Farmer) and (Wilma Lord Perkins) revisor, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book , Eighth edition:

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.

* 1975 , and (Marion Rombauer Becker), The Joy of Cooking , 5th revision:

Jelly has great clarity. Two cooking processes are involved. First, the juice alone is extracted from the fruit. Only that portion thin and clear enough to drip through a cloth is cooked with sugar until sufficiently firm to hold its shape. It is never stiff and never gummy.

A similar dish made with meat.

calf's-foot jelly

(zoology)

A pretty girl; a girlfriend.

* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 25:

‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He?s got a jelly there.’

(US, slang) A large backside, especially a woman's.

* 2001 , (w, Destiny's Child), “(Bootylicious)” (song)

I shake my jelly at every chance / When I whip with my hips you slip into a trance

* 2001 , George Dell, Dance Unto the Lord , page 94:

At that Sister Samantha seemed to shake her jelly so that she sank back into her chair.

(colloquial)

(colloquial) A jelly shoe.

* 2006 , David L. Marcus, What It Takes to Pull Me Through :

Mary Alice gazed at a picture of herself wearing jellies and an oversized turquoise T-shirt that matched her eyes

Synonyms

* (dessert made by boiling gelatin) (US) jello, Jell-O * (fruit preserve) jam, marmalade

Derived terms

* comb jelly * jellification * jellify * jelly baby * jelly bean * jelly bracelet * jellyfish * jellylike * royal jelly

Verb

To wiggle like jelly.

To make jelly.

Etymology 2

From jealous by shortening.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(slang) Jealous.

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* 2011 , " Exchange smiles, not saliva", The Banner (Grand Blanc High School), Volume 47, Issue 2, December 2011, page 17:

"I think other people make rude comments because they're jelly [jealous] bro," Schroer said. "We're just showing our love to other people."

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