jello
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of jello
Genericized spelling of trademarked Jell-O
Example Sentences
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But your homemade meals don’t have to resemble a frozen TV dinner, with its segmented tray of meat, an amorphous sauce, a scoop of peas or rice and a mysterious, saccharine lump of... jello?
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2025
Instead, it has to find the point where you’ll suspend disbelief and accept that the table is there, even if it objectively feels more like jello than hard wood.
From The Verge • Nov. 16, 2021
On one folding table, volunteers had laid out homemade treats, including jello squares, salted nuts, and oatmeal cookies made with M&M’s.
From The New Yorker • May 1, 2019
As far as kid-approved sides go, it was right up there with Grandma’s pineapple-strawberry jello mold, which somehow passed for fruit and was inexplicably laid out alongside the turkey instead of the pumpkin pie.
From Slate • Nov. 19, 2018
I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
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