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  • noun A person who joshes or ridicules

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Examples

  • Say, you think yourself some josher, don't you, telling me you were a kidnapper!

    Piccadilly Jim 1928

  • 'John thinks he's a great little josher, Miss Helen,' he said lightly.

    The Desert Valley Jackson Gregory 1912

  • He whistled to himself with a look that meant: "You wait, old josher till you get into the Knockery again!"

    Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University Will Irwin 1910

  • "Mr. Ditmar's a great josher," Mr. Hale told Janet confidentially as he escorted them into the dining-room.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • "Mr. Ditmar's a great josher," Mr. Hale told Janet confidentially as he escorted them into the dining-room.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2 Winston Churchill 1909

  • "Mr. Ditmar's a great josher," Mr. Hale told Janet confidentially as he escorted them into the dining-room.

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • 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.

    Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907

  • "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.

    The Landloper Holman Day 1900

  • "A great josher!" that young woman was heard to comment, admiringly.

    Jane Cable George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • 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.

    Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893

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  • It was a masquerade costume, maybe; that goat Osterman was such a josher, one never could tell what he would do next.

    - Frank Norris, The Octopus, ch. 5

    August 15, 2008