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

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

That josher, Osterman, always at his monkey-shines, but a good fellow for all that; brainy too.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Norris, Frank

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