• Josh

    Full definition of josh

    Noun

    josh

    (plural joshes)
    1. Good natured banter

    Verb

    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,
      • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-bossBoris, 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.

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