I was really jelly

I was so jealous

ESL learners would come up with this expression envy or jealous when they want to talk about something jealous. Well jealous is the safe to go, it seems.

I envy you !!

I'm so jealous ( of you ) !! Well, saying envy to express this kind of feelings is a little bit awkward since I don't really hear this in American English that much. If my memory serves me right, I think I've heard of it in an American television show but I'm not sure what was it. Anyway... envy you, I'm damn pretty sure I got this a lot from Filipino. They use this a lot. No offence by the way.

I'm jealous !!

This is what I get a lot from here and there. But I bumped into a nice expression today while watching the wave of Youtube videos. It is jelly. I was puzzled by him saying ' I was really jelly ' in the video and I thought ' what the? did he say jelly? did I hear it wrong? ' but it was definitely jelly. So I started to look up the word in the dictionary but to no avail, instead, try to search it in the slang category and I found this one.

Being jealous, or hating

The girls are jelly, the jealous of me

Oh! come to think of it, it looks like it does make sense to use jelly instead of jealous. It sounds very similar in a casual way.

I was really jelly

This is the clip video I made from the Youtube video.

" You know you don't really have that in Korea. People are not grilling burgers outside. But this is what I've been craving lately. The other day my dad was like 'we just, you know, we broke in grills cook up some burgers out' Man I was really jelly." 

You don't really have a grill in Korea. People in Korea are not cooking burgers on a grill outside. But this burger is what I've wanted to eat lately. When my father said that he grilled some burgers, man I was really jealous !

Find the original video here