Jelly vs Large - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between jelly and large

is that 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 while large is (music|obsolete) an old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.

As adjectives the difference between jelly and large

is that jelly is (slang) jealous while large is of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

As a verb jelly

is to wiggle like jelly.

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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large

English

Adjective

(er)

Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

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(obsolete) Abundant; ample.

* Milton

We have yet large day.

(archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.

* Felton

I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.

(obsolete) Free; unencumbered.

* Fairfax

Of burdens all he set the Paynims large .

(obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.

* Shakespeare

Some large jests he will make.

(nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.

Synonyms

(checksyns) * big, huge, giant, gigantic, enormous, stour, great, mickle, largeish * See also

Antonyms

* small, tiny, minuscule

Derived terms

* as large as life, larger than life * by and large * enlarge * give it large * have it large * large it, large up, large it up * largely * largeness * writ large * largish

Noun

(music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.

(obsolete) Liberality, generosity.

A thousand dollars.

Getting a car tricked out like that will cost you 50 large .

Derived terms

* at large

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