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gelly

A form of jelly — A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set.

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noungelly (countable and uncountable, plural gellies)

plural gellies

countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of jelly.
In July, currant, raspberry, and gooseberry gelly and jam are made.
1836 [1834], Ganavya Doraiswamy, The Family Magazine; Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge ..., Volumes 3-4, Redfield & Lindsay, page 359
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Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round , They softly wipt away the gelly blood
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
abbreviationclippingcolloquialcountableuncountableClipping of gelignite.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate

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gelly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gelly

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“gelly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gelly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gelly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gelly.

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