jasper

jaspis, jaspiskivi puhekieltä Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
puhekieltä An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
jasperware Jasperware pottery.
puhekieltä A wasp.
puhekieltä A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
1975, Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:

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!”

"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."

Jasper la tranche d’un livre.