josh
verb (used with or without object)
to chaff; banter in a teasing way.
joshed
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past participleof josh.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof josh.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
joshverb (used with or without object)to chaff; banter in a teasing way.
Example Sentences
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“You must be a local!” he joshed with a man wearing shorts in the cold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
But just upriver from the Ivangorod fortress, a couple of old-timers watched their fishing poles and joshed with each other.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
While his pals traded war stories and joshed each other about glory days gone by, he would feel uncomfortably out of place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2019
He joshed about the annual event’s brand-new “reality show” wrinkle of public voting between two turkeys named Peas and Carrots to see which one gets, you might say, the embrace.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2018
They joshed you at the drop of a hat.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
