Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of
jelly ;jellylike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(And there's some wild stuff to quote, about ghosts and the Lemurians, the jellyish beings who inhabited Atlantis.)
Biodynamics: Natural Wonder or Just a Horn of Manure? jaY MCINERNEY 2010
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Jelly Belly tasting bar where you can stand and request flavors until your own belly is pretty jellyish.
Archive 2007-04-01 Kate 2007
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Jelly Belly tasting bar where you can stand and request flavors until your own belly is pretty jellyish.
Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: What we do when it is too cold to camp Kate 2007
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I smiled kindly through my rolled-down window, acknowledging my fellow artists, my bruises hidden by my disguise, and my smile was met by a specimen out of Brueghel—the woman, in her fifties, had a long, jellyish nose, gray teeth, and copper, wiry hair that had a life of its own and not a very pleasant life at that.
Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004
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Lt. Charles Gallant of the Rye Fire Department said the jellyish was "about the size of a trash can cover," and it started to fall apart when park staffers tried to remove it from the water.
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Lieutenant Charles Gallant of the Rye Fire Department said the jellyish started to fall apart when park staffers tried to remove it from the water.
WCAX - Local News 2010
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Would anybody really wish to get rid of terms like mansuetude (an almost onomatopoeic word for gentleness) or niddering (a jellyish synonym for cowardly)?
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Lindesay Irvine 2008
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