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/ˈd͡ʒæs.pəː/ · noun
(obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian..
And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
"I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."
Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper
“That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
Use jasper when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jasper means (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
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