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jasper

noun

  1. type of gemstone
  2. colored stoneware with raised white decoration
  3. a blackish green
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈdʒaspə/ / /ˈd͡ʒæspɚ/ / /ˈd͡ʒæs.pəː/ / [ˈd͡ʒæs.pəː] / /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/

name

Etymology: A name given to one of the Magi in a medieval European cult, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰabarah; see it for more.

  1. A male given name from Old Persian.

    “Her husband is...let me see...oh yes, he's Lord Jasper Jayne. His name sounds like the hero of a servant's novelette, but he doesn't look like that. He looks like a chucker-out in a back-street pub.”

  2. A surname.
  3. One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.
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noun

Etymology: From the male personal name Jasper.

  1. A wasp.
  2. A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.

    “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."”

  3. A stranger.

verb

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

  1. To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.