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"word": "แจสเปอร์"
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "jaspe"
},
"expansion": "jaspe",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "jaspe"
},
"expansion": "French jaspe",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "iaspis"
},
"expansion": "Latin iaspis",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ἴασπις"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "jaspers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "jaspering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "jaspered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "jaspered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "jasper (third-person singular simple present jaspers, present participle jaspering, simple past and past participle jaspered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To decorate with, or as if with, jasper."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, jasper."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdʒæs.pə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-jasper.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/En-us-jasper.ogg/En-us-jasper.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-us-jasper.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "jăsʹpər"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"jasper"
],
"word": "jasper"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"en:Gems",
"en:Minerals",
"en:Vespids"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "From the male personal name Jasper.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "jaspers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "jasper (plural jaspers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English colloquialisms",
"Somerset English",
"West Country English"
],
"glosses": [
"A wasp."
],
"links": [
[
"wasp",
"wasp"
]
],
"qualifier": "Somerset",
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"West-Country",
"colloquial"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1957, Meredith Willson, “Ya Got Trouble”, in The Music Man",
"text": "And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1968, Charles Portis, “True Grit”, in The Saturday Evening Post",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits",
"text": "Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple."
],
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"(US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Appalachian English"
],
"glosses": [
"A stranger."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Appalachia) A stranger."
],
"tags": [
"Appalachia"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdʒæs.pə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-jasper.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/En-us-jasper.ogg/En-us-jasper.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-us-jasper.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "jăsʹpər"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"jasper"
],
"word": "jasper"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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