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

"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

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)

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