"jasm" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently a variant of jism.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "jasm (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Jeremy has the kind of jasm a junior exec needs to reach the top of the ladder in the corporate world.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Miss Gilbert's Career: An American Story, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 350",
          "text": "“Yes, sir. No mistake about that. Oh! she's just as full of jasm!”\nFrank Sargent laughed again. “You've got the start of me,” said he. “Now tell me what ‘jasm’ is.”\n“Well, it’s a sort of word, I guess, that made itself,” said Cheek. “It’s a good one though—jasm is. If you’ll take thunder and lightning, and a steamboat and a buzz-saw, and mix ’em up, and put ’em into a woman, that’s jasm.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 June 30, Elizabeth Cooper, Drusilla with a Million, Kessinger Publishing, page 197",
          "text": "I don’t think there is anything more pitiful than a man, who has been in business for himself, to have to give up and say he is a failure. It hurts to be compelled to go into some one’s shop as a clerk or a mechanic when you’ve once been your own master. It’ll put jasm into a lot of men that have lost their nerve and only need some one to set them straight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Zest for accomplishment; drive."
      ],
      "id": "en-jasm-en-noun--tUFst0o",
      "links": [
        [
          "Zest",
          "zest"
        ],
        [
          "accomplishment",
          "accomplishment"
        ],
        [
          "drive",
          "drive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, US, slang) Zest for accomplishment; drive."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "archaic",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "Jazz."
      ],
      "id": "en-jasm-en-noun-FlY4eHN7",
      "links": [
        [
          "Jazz",
          "jazz"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Jazz."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jasm"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Apparently a variant of jism.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "jasm (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Jeremy has the kind of jasm a junior exec needs to reach the top of the ladder in the corporate world.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Miss Gilbert's Career: An American Story, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 350",
          "text": "“Yes, sir. No mistake about that. Oh! she's just as full of jasm!”\nFrank Sargent laughed again. “You've got the start of me,” said he. “Now tell me what ‘jasm’ is.”\n“Well, it’s a sort of word, I guess, that made itself,” said Cheek. “It’s a good one though—jasm is. If you’ll take thunder and lightning, and a steamboat and a buzz-saw, and mix ’em up, and put ’em into a woman, that’s jasm.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 June 30, Elizabeth Cooper, Drusilla with a Million, Kessinger Publishing, page 197",
          "text": "I don’t think there is anything more pitiful than a man, who has been in business for himself, to have to give up and say he is a failure. It hurts to be compelled to go into some one’s shop as a clerk or a mechanic when you’ve once been your own master. It’ll put jasm into a lot of men that have lost their nerve and only need some one to set them straight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Zest for accomplishment; drive."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Zest",
          "zest"
        ],
        [
          "accomplishment",
          "accomplishment"
        ],
        [
          "drive",
          "drive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, US, slang) Zest for accomplishment; drive."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "archaic",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Jazz."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Jazz",
          "jazz"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Jazz."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jasm"
}