Jasper vs Jade - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between jasper and jade

is that jasper is any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian while jade is to make ridiculous and contemptible.

As an adjective jade is

of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

As a verb jade is

to tire, weary or fatigue.

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

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."

Anagrams

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jade

English

(wikipedia jade)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), error for earlier

Noun

(en-noun)

(senseid)(uncountable) A semiprecious stone either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

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A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.

Derived terms

{{der3, jade gate , jade green , jade plant , jade stalk , jadeite , pseudojade}}

Adjective

(-)

Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

Etymology 2

From (etyl), either a variant of (m)Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 1134942168, 2006) or merely influenced by it. .Per Thorson, ''Anglo-Norse studies: an inquiry into the Scandinavian elements in the modern English dialects'', volume 1 (1936), page 52: "Yad sb. Sc Nhb Lakel Yks Lan, also in forms ''yaad'', ''yaud'', ''yawd'', ''yoad'', ''yod(e)''.... [jad, o] 'a work-horse, a mare' etc. ON ''jalda'' 'made', Sw. dial. ''jäldä'', from Finnish ''elde'' (FT p. 319, Torp p. 156 fol.). Eng. ''jade'' is not related."''Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research'', page 18: "There is thus no etymological connection between ME. ''j?de'' MnE. ''jade'' and ME. ''jald'' MnE. dial. ''yaud etc. But the two words have influenced each other mutually, both formally and semantically." See (m) for more.

Noun

(en noun)

A horse too old to be put to work.

A woman.

Synonyms

* (old horse) yaud

Verb

(jad)

To tire, weary or fatigue

* John Locke

The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.

(obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

* Shakespeare

I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* jaded

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