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Casper vs Jasper - What's the difference?

casper | jasper |

As proper nouns the difference between casper and jasper

is that casper is a given name derived from Persian, an occasional variant of Caspar while Jasper is a given name derived from Persian, an English variant of Caspar.

As a noun jasper is

any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.

casper

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , an occasional variant of Caspar.
  • (offensive, slang) A white person
  • A city in Wyoming
  • A mountain in Wyoming

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    jasper

    English

    (wikipedia jasper)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from (etyl) iaspis, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  • (mineralogy) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  • Jasperware pottery.
    • Derived terms
    * Jasper National Park * jasper opal * jasperated * jasperite * jasperize * jasperoid * jasperous * jasperware * jaspery * jaspidean * lavender jasper * xyloid jasper
    See also
    * jasperware

    Etymology 2

    From the male personal name Jasper .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
  • (US, slang) 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 .
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 122:
    • “That jasper ,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
  • * 1968 , Charles Portis, True Grit , The Saturday Evening Post
    • "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."

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