josh

josh (plural joshes)

1. An instance of good-natured banter.

josh (third-person singular simple present joshes, present participle joshing, simple past and past participle joshed)

1. (transitive) To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion.
2. (intransitive) To make or exchange good-natured jokes.
   • 1902: We are old friends, did I not tell you? So I may, what you Americans call, josh with him. — Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows
   • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)

     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.

• josher
• joshingly

• “josh” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

From Proto-Albanian *jāudsja, from Proto-Indo-European *Hi̯eu̯dʰ- (compare Lithuanian jáudinti (“to excite, arouse”), Polish judzić (“to incite”), Latin jubere (“to order”)).

josh (first-person singular past tense josha, participle joshur)

1. to fondle, caress
2. to entice, seduce

• joshë