Jelly Belly, maker of the famous gourmet jelly beans, created the Blueberry Jelly Belly expressly for the president, who once said about himself and his comrades, â We can hardly start a meeting or make a decision without passing around the jar of jelly beans.â And that, folks, is a short history of the jelly bean.
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Word Origin and History for disciple Expand n. Old English discipul (fem. discipula), Biblical borrowing from Latin discipulus pupil, student, follower, said to be from discere to learn [OED, Watkins], from a reduplicated form of PIE root *dek-to take, accept (see decent).