josher

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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

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 Lincoln, F. Foster

He 'phoned me once about this, but he's such a josher, and it was such wild-eyed lunacy that I thought he was kidding.

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

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