joshed

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 or friendly fashion.
   • "My dear Polly. I welcome criticism, but this is mere——"
     Lady Wetherby stroked his coat sleeve fondly.
     "Never mind, Algie, I was only joshing you, precious.[…]"1915, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Uneasy Money, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, published 17 March 1916, →OCLC, page 171
2. (intransitive) To make or exchange good-natured jokes.
   • 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

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