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jasp

UK/d͡ʒæsp/US/d͡ʒæsp/

jasp is the obsolete form of jasper.

Meaning of jasper

Noun (1)

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.

Noun (2)

jasper (plural jaspers)

  1. (UK, West-Country, colloquial, Somerset) A wasp.
  2. (US, slang) 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!1957, Meredith Willson, “Ya Got Trouble”, in The Music Man
  3. (Appalachia) A stranger.

See all 25 meanings of jasper

Forms of jasp

pluraljasps

Origin of jasp

Inherited from Middle English jasp(e), from Old French jaspe.

Questions about jasp

What is jasp the obsolete form of?
Jasp is the obsolete form of jasper.
How do you pronounce jasp?
Jasp is pronounced /d͡ʒæsp/ (UK).

Words near jasp in the dictionary

  1. Jason Voorhees
  2. Jasons
  3. jasoos
  4. jasooses
  5. Jasos
  6. jasp
  7. jaspachate
  8. jaspachates
  9. jaspe
  10. jaspellite
  11. jaspellites

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