jasper

noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
2. (countable, uncountable)An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
3. (countable, uncountable)Jasperware pottery.
4. (UK, West-Country, colloquial)A wasp.
5. (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!”

   “"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."”

   “Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper”

   ““That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!””

6. (Appalachia)A stranger.

verb

1. (transitive)To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

name

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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