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

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

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 Garland, Hamlin

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