† jelyfn.
Obsolete.
A false form of the word jelly n.1 found in 15–16th centuries, perhaps in imitation of jolif, archaic form of jolly.
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c1450 Songs & Carols (1856) 76 I have a jelyf of Godes sonde Withoutyn fyt it can stonde.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 148 In such cases [merchants' feasts] also geliffes, conserues, suckets, codinacs, marmilats [etc.].
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