JELLY
ADJECTIVES
► GELABLE capable of being converted into jelly → 1727
► GELATANEOUS of the nature of jelly → 1763 obs.
NOUNS
► GEILL jelly → c1450 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► JEEL jelly → a1774 Sc.
► JELL jelly → 1870 Amer. dial.
► LOBLOLLY jelly; pudding; a soft or gelatinous food → 1902 Amer. dial.
► MOLLYCRUSH a jelly, usually of fruit → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOTHER KELLY a jelly → 1992 UK rhyming sl.
VERBS
► JELL to become a jelly; to congeal or jelly → 1830-40 US colloq.
► JEEL to set as jelly; to congeal → 1896 Sc.