jellify
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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Origin of jellify
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"Drene," he said, "is one of those fussers who jellify when hurled on their necks—the kind that ask that kind of girl to marry them after she's turned down everything else they suggest."
From Between Friends by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
They shun many textures beloved elsewhere, like the chewiness of tripe or the jellified tendon in pho.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2023
Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours, or until the stock is jellified and fat has formed a solid lid.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2020
The doctor who had taken him up dropped him still jellified with ether-nausea, at Moundville, to walk the seven miles home.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2013
He crashed into the lockers and tried to hold himself up, but his legs jellified and down he went.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
His gloves were pulpy and jellified, his spring-side kid boots felt as if he were taking a foot bath of cold glue, and some insidious drops of cold water were trickling down his back.
From Fair Margaret A Portrait by Horace T. Carpenter
To disguise my sex and identity—for it was a priori almost impossible that the inhabitants of Wenus had never heard of Pozzuoli—would guard me from the jellifying Mash-Glance of the Wenuses.
From The War of the Wenuses by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
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