gelly
English
editNoun
editgelly (countable and uncountable, plural gellies)
- Obsolete form of jelly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round , They softly wipt away the gelly blood
References
edit- “gelly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
editNoun
editgelly
- Alternative form of gele