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japer
English
Etymology
jape +? -er
Noun
japer (plural japers)
- One who japes; a joker.
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jasper
English
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: j?s?p?r
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?æsp?/
Etymology 1
From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (íaspis).
Noun
jasper (countable and uncountable, plural jaspers)
- (obsolete) 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.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- jasperware
Verb
jasper (third-person singular simple present jaspers, present participle jaspering, simple past and past participle jaspered)
- (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.
Etymology 2
From the male personal name Jasper.
Noun
jasper (plural jaspers)
- (Britain, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
- (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
- 1957, Meredith Willson, "Ya Got Trouble", 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!
- 1975, Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:
- 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!”
- 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit, 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."
- 1957, Meredith Willson, "Ya Got Trouble", The Music Man:
Anagrams
- japers
French
Verb
jasper
- apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone
- Jasper la tranche d’un livre.
Conjugation
Further reading
- “jasper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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