josher
Example Sentences
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Here was a weeper, there a grinning josher, and everywhere beer bottles and nervous wives.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"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
He's a chronic josher, Nutt is,—always puttin' up some deep and elaborate game on Mr. Robert, or relatin' by the hour the horse-play stunts he's pulled on others.
From Torchy, Private Sec. by F. Foster Lincoln
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
