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

By George, Slater," said he, "Brassfield is absolutely the most deceptive josher I ever saw.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson

And what's worse, I haven't any one to tell me—except Mr. Congdon, and he's such a josher I don't trust him.

From Money Magic A Novel by Garland, Hamlin

"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