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a liquid pretending to be a solid until your spoon calls its bluff.
means A soft, semi-solid food made from fruit juice or another liquid set with gelatin or pectin, wobbling somewhere between liquid and solid.
from From Old French 'gelee,' meaning a frost or a jelly — itself from the Latin verb 'gelare,' to freeze or congeal. The same chilly root stiffens 'gelatin,' 'gel,' and 'congeal': all of them words about a liquid losing its nerve and firming up. So jelly is, quite literally, something frozen into shape — though it never feels cold, just suspiciously committed to staying put.
- physics
- gelatin makes water hold its shape
- origin
- set from boiled animal collagen and bones
- slang
- means envious in modern shorthand
- jellyfish
- unrelated, but 95 percent water too
for instance
petroleum jelly vaseline — trademark product first produced by chesebrough manufacturing in 1870 from oil rig byproducts