Also geliffe. Obs. A false form of the word JELLY found in 15–16th c., perh. in imitation of jolif, archaic form of jolly.
c. 1450. Songs & Carols (1856), 76. I have a jelyf of Godes sonde Withoutyn fyt it can stonde.
1577. Harrison, England, II. vi. (1877), I. 148. In such cases [merchants’ feasts] also geliffes, conserues, suckets, codinacs, marmilats [etc.].
