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

"Bud—my boss—is some josher," was all that Lorry could think of to say at the time.

From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Knibbs, Henry Herbert

"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

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