josher
Example Sentences
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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
"You're a josher," said Billy helplessly, not being prepared to say just all he thought about the possibility of his forgetting her.
From The Long Shadow by B. M. Bower
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 Hamlin Garland
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 F. Foster Lincoln
