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jaspers

jaspers is the plural 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.

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Proper noun capitalized: Jaspers

Jaspers (plural Jasperses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of jaspers

pluralJasperses

Origin of jaspers

Borrowed from Dutch and North German Jaspers.

Phrases with jaspers

Questions about jaspers

What does jaspers mean?
Jaspers means a surname.
What is jaspers the plural of?
Jaspers is the plural of jasper.
What part of speech is jaspers?
Jaspers is a proper noun.

Words near jaspers in the dictionary

  1. jasperizes
  2. jasperizing
  3. jasperoid
  4. jasperoids
  5. jasperous
  6. jaspers
  7. Jasperses
  8. Jasperson
  9. Jaspersons
  10. jasperware
  11. jasperwares

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