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

He was a heavy josher was that waiter.

From McTeague by Norris, Frank

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 Norris, Frank

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