josh
verb (used with or without object)
to chaff; banter in a teasing way.
josher
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a word derived from
josh.
Example Sentences
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Funnyman Stewart, a great josher, gets them so thoroughly off guard a few times that his weaker cracks keep them wobbling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here was a weeper, there a grinning josher, and everywhere beer bottles and nervous wives.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Bud—my boss—is some josher," was all that Lorry could think of to say at the time.
From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs
Looks easy, doesn’t it?—one minute, the sixtieth part of an hour, to be precise, sixty seconds, to stick on the back of an affectionate josher mule like Barney.
From Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London
It was a masquerade costume, maybe; that goat Osterman was such a josher, one never could tell what he would do next.
From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris
