josher

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 Knibbs, Henry Herbert

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 London, Jack

"I don't know who that josher is, but I hate to lose him out of town," confided the orator on the trough to those near him.

From The Landloper by Day, Holman