Jasper
WordNet
noun
(1) An opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Greek ἴασπις, ultimately (via an oriental language) from Persian (yašp).
Noun
- Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
- An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
- Jasperware pottery.
Noun
- A wasp. (West Country dialects, Somerset County)
- A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
- 1975, Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:
- I'm standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 122:
- “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
- 1975, Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:
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Verb
- apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone
- Jasper la tranche d’un livre.