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plural joshes
An instance of good-natured banter. examples
third-person singular simple present joshes, present participle joshing, simple past and past participle joshed
(transitive) To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion. examples
(intransitive) To make or exchange good-natured jokes. quotations examples
We are old friends, did I not tell you? So I may, what you Americans call, josh with him.
1902, Jack London, chapter XIV, in A Daughter of the Snows
“Cut that joshing out,” she said, coolly and briskly. “Who do you think you are talking to? Your check, please. Oh, Lordy!—”
1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business
Boris, it seems, is taking it in this spirit, joshing beneath his ever-redeeming barnet that Labour's opposition to military action in Syria is a fey stance that he, as GQ politician of the year, would never be guilty of.
2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards”, in The Guardian