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Jelly vs Medusa - What's the difference?

jelly | medusa |

As verbs the difference between jelly and medusa

is that jelly is to wiggle like jelly while medusa is .

As a noun 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 an adjective jelly

is (slang) jealous.

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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    medusa

    English

    (wikipedia Medusa)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Greek mythology): The only mortal of the three gorgon sisters. She is killed by Perseus. The other two sisters were Euryale and Stheno.
  • * 1895 , , (w) (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art , 2010, ISBN 9781108017121, page 201,
    • On an Attic vase of the middle of the fifth century the head of Medusa' in the hand of Perseus is represented as that of a beautiful woman free from any distortion. This led us to conclude (''supra'', p. 158) that ' Medusa must have been so represented at Athens in the greater arts even previous to this vase, for the vase-painters never invent such bold novelties for themselves.
  • * 2000 , Nannó Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion , page 62,
    • It will be suggested here that the myth of Perseus, involving the decapitation of Medusa , is a narrative version of ritual.
  • * 2001', Dennis Berthold, ''Melville's '''Medusas'' , in Sanford E. Marovitz, Athanasios C. Christodoulou (editors), ''Melville "Among the nations": Proceedings of an International Conference, Volos, Greece, July 2-6, 1997 ,
    • But their depictions of Perseus are remarkably different and demonstrate the ambiguity of Medusa' that was seeping into Victorian iconography. In later, Roman versions of the myth, for example Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', Perseus slays the sea monster with his sword instead of using ' Medusa ’s head to petrify the monster.

    Derived terms

    * medusafish * medusahead * medusal

    See also

    * * Euryale * Stheno

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