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

Looks easy, doesn’t it?—one minute, the sixtieth part of an hour, to be precise, sixty seconds, to stick on the back of an affectionate josher mule like Barney. 

From Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack

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