Noun: jasper
| Singular | jasper |
| Plural | jaspers |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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"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." [1968, Charles Portis, “True Grit”, in The Saturday Evening Post:]
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Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper [1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:]
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“That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!” [2006, Thomas Pynchon, “The Light over the Ranges”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 110:]
Nouns inflected like jasper
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis). See: Middle English Nouns '
jasper', French Nouns '
jaspe', Latin Nouns '
iaspis', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἴασπις'.