jellylike
English
Etymology
jelly + -like
Adjective
jellylike (comparative more jellylike, superlative most jellylike)
- Resembling or characteristic of jelly.
- 1895, Mark Twain, “How to Tell a Story,” in Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches, edited by Tom Quirk, Penguin, 1994, originally published in The Youth’s Companion, 3 October, 1895,
- The teller is innocent and happy and pleased with himself, and has to stop every little while to hold himself in and keep from laughing outright; and does hold in, but his body quakes in a jelly-like way with interior chuckles; and at the end of the ten minutes the audience have laughed until they are exhausted, and the tears are running down their faces.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 5,
- However quickly the water was used, there were always larvae of some sort on its surface, jumpy jellylike whiskery things, perfection in their way.
- 1895, Mark Twain, “How to Tell a Story,” in Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches, edited by Tom Quirk, Penguin, 1994, originally published in The Youth’s Companion, 3 October, 1895,
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:gelatinous
Translations
resembling a jelly
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