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jasm

jasm noun: zest for accomplishment; drive.

Noun (1)

jasm (uncountable)

  1. (US, archaic, slang) Zest for accomplishment; drive.
    • Jeremy has the kind of jasm a junior exec needs to reach the top of the ladder in the corporate world.
    • “Yes, sir. No mistake about that. Oh! she's just as full of jasm!”
    • Frank Sargent laughed again. “You've got the start of me,” said he. “Now tell me what ‘jasm’ is.”
    • “Well, it’s a sort of word, I guess, that made itself,” said Cheek. “It’s a good one though—jasm is. If you’ll take thunder and lightning, and a steamboat and a buzz-saw, and mix ’em up, and put ’em into a woman, that’s jasm.”1860, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Miss Gilbert's Career: An American Story, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 350
  2. (archaic) Jazz.

Noun (2) capitalized: JASM

JASM (plural JASMs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of junior assistant scoutmaster.

Forms of jasm

pluralJASMs

Origin of jasm

Apparently a variant of jism.

Questions about jasm

What does jasm mean?
Jasm means zest for accomplishment; drive.
What part of speech is jasm?
Jasm is a noun.
What is the plural of jasm?
The plural of jasm is JASMs.

Words near jasm in the dictionary

  1. jaskolskiite
  2. Jaskolskis
  3. Jaskowiak
  4. Jaskowiaks
  5. jaskólskiite
  6. jasm
  7. jasmin
  8. Jasmina
  9. jasminaceous
  10. jasmine
  11. jasmine rice

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