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English

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Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/; enPR: jăsʹpər
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdʒæs.pə/
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Etymology 1

From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).

Noun

jasper (countable and uncountable, plural jaspers)

  1. (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  2. An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  3. Jasperware pottery.
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Verb

jasper (third-person singular simple present jaspers, present participle jaspering, simple past and past participle jaspered)

  1. (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

Etymology 2

From the male personal name Jasper.

Noun

jasper (plural jaspers)

  1. (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
  2. (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
    • 1957, Meredith Willson, “Ya Got Trouble”, in The Music Man:
      And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
    • 1968, Charles Portis, “True Grit”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
      "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."
    • 1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:
      Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “The Light over the Ranges”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 110:
      “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
  3. (Appalachia) A stranger.

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French

Etymology

From jaspe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Verb

jasper

  1. to apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone
    Jasper la tranche d’un livre. ― Jasper the edge of the book.

Conjugation

Conjugation of jasper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
More information infinitive, simple ...

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