josh
verb (used with or without object)
to chaff; banter in a teasing way.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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And then he became reminiscent and asked whether Kenneth remembered the way they kicked the furniture around that first evening and how Kenneth had joshed Grafton Hyde.
From The New Boy at Hilltop by Ralph Henry Barbour