jasper
Meanings
Plural: jaspers
Noun
- an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone
- Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
- An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
- Jasperware pottery.
- A wasp.
- A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
- A stranger.
Verb
- To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.
Origin / 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).
Scrabble Score: 15
jasper is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordjasper is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
jasper is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 18
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