josher

"Mr. Ditmar's a great josher," Mr. Hale told Janet confidentially as he escorted them into the dining-room.

It was a masquerade costume, maybe; that goat Osterman was such a josher, one never could tell what he would do next.

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

Why, he's Sam Ds; you've heard of Sam, of courseeditor, writer and humoristfamous story-tellerthe biggest 'josher' on earth.

"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.