jasper
nomverbenomcourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈd͡ʒæs.pə//
- Royaume-Uni//ˈd͡ʒɑː.pə//
- États-Unis//ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ//
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
nom
- 1
obsolèteAny 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.
Étymologie
From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).
verbe
- 1
To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.
nom
- 1
A wasp.
- 2
argotA 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!”
- 3
A stranger.
Étymologie
From the male personal name Jasper.
Formes
- pluriel
- jaspers
- passé
- jaspered
- participe passé
- jaspered
- participe présent
- jaspering
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- jaspers
jasper · An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
Jasper · A male given name from Old Persian.java · A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.Java · An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.