Jasper

Quick meaning: Jasper is a noun meaning An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.

Meaning

An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.

More Meanings

1. Jasperware pottery.
2. (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.
3. (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
4. (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
5. (Appalachia) A stranger.
6. (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.

Example Sentences

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!”

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."

Word Forms

• jaspers
• jaspering
• jaspered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prairie, park, thing, parks, chalcedony, agate.

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