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Synonyms for josh

Grammar : Verb
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Phonetic Transcription : dʒɒʃ

Définition of josh

Origin :
  • "to make fun of, to banter," 1845, American English, probably from the familiar version of the proper name Joshua, but just which Joshua, or why, is long forgotten. Perhaps it was taken as a typical name of an old farmer. The word was in use earlier than the career of U.S. humorist Josh Billings, pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885), who did not begin to write and lecture until 1860; but his popularity after 1869 may have influence that of the word.
  • About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ["Josh Billings"]
  • Related: Joshed; joshing.
  • verb joke
Example sentences :
  • She told him yaller; an' Josh had him go right to work on't next day.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Cyrus he was goin' by Josh's, an' he didn't see no smoke from the settin'-room stove.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • An' when Josh come in, 'Mandy she took a cinnamon-rose out of her dress, an' offered it to him.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • An' Josh he got kind o' fretful to her, an' she to him, an' 'Mandy was all honey an' cream.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • He's gone in for the whole hog, but he 'ain't growed to it, as Old Josh had.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Take, for example, some of the apothegms of "Josh Billings."
  • Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
  • Josh leaned over the gunwale, and reported that there was no fender out.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 » by Various
  • The reader may recall Josh Billings's remark on the subject.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • The name is registered four hundred years before that in Josh.
  • Extract from : « Byeways in Palestine » by James Finn
  • There can scarcely be a doubt that it is the Parah, belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, in Josh.
  • Extract from : « Byeways in Palestine » by James Finn

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