josser

"Please yourself!" the Maluka laughed, and with a flash of white teeth and an infectious chuckle Cheon laughed and nodded back; then, still chuckling, he waddled away to the kitchen and took possession there, while we went to our respective dinners, little guessing that the truest-hearted, most faithful, most loyal old "josser" had waddled into our lives.

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

So he called at a place he had heard of in Shaftesbury Avenue, where there was a "josser" who arranged it for him quite simply by means of a bill of sale upon his furniture.

The Combined Maze May Sinclair 1904

Has any fellow, of the dime a dozen type, it might with some profit some dull evening quietly be hinted — has any usual sort of ornery josser, flat — chested fortyish, faintly flatulent and given to ratiocination by syncopation in the elucidation of complications, of his greatest

Finnegans Wake 2006

Pilbrow, always up to the times, used an idiom entirely modern, but Despard-Smith still brought out slang that was fresh at the end of the century – ‘crab', and ‘josser',* and ‘by Jove'.

languagehat.com: STRATA OF SPEECH. 2005

But as last I was brought before some old josser who was high up in the force, and who seemed to have no end of a head on his shoulders.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

But that josser of a Jimmy, talking like that at his ease!

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

"Another josser who's sure to talk a lot of nonsense!" cried Lily.

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

"Mdlles.;" or else, from time to time, some josser, a friend of the manager's or an agent, prowling around among the flesh-colored tights.

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

Wy, I knowed a long lathy-limbed josser as felt up to champion form.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 Various

He was no longer a cur, that josser, but a gentleman, rather, a brother, a friend ....

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne