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

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

He whistled to himself with a look that meant: "You wait, old josher till you get into the Knockery again!"

From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg)

“You’re some little josher, aren’t you, Dan?” said Joe, grimly.

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Holmes, Thomas K.