josh

See also Josh

English

Noun

josh (plural joshes)

1. Good natured banter

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To tease someone in a kindly 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

Translations

(transitive) To tease someone in a kindly fashion

• Russian: подшучивать (ru) (podšučivatʹ), разыгрывать (ru) (razygryvatʹ)

(intransitive) To make or exchange good-natured jokes

Derived terms

• josher
• joshingly

References

• “josh” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.

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Albanian

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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

Derivatives

• joshë