Definition of "jasper" in Englisch

noun

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.

verb

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

noun

1. (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.

2. (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.

3. (Appalachia) A stranger.