noun
definition
An instance of good-natured banter.
verb
definition
To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion.
definition
To make or exchange good-natured jokes.
Examples of josh in a Sentence
I think this is the Josh I'm asking about.
Carmen had given Josh no encouragement.
No one could have been more private than Josh.
If you have any problems, call Josh.
Other than an infatuation with Josh before she met Alex, there had been no one else.
Do you know Josh's last name?
After all, he had accused her of having an affair with Josh.
Alex, Lori had a crush on Josh when they were kids.
Josh just wanted to humiliate me by giving it to Carmen.
It simply didn't make sense, and Josh was usually all about sense.
She had endured a lot with Josh.
Josh is all the help we need, and he's right down the road.
Then again, you did have Josh.
Like Josh would let me.
Everyone teases him, you know - Josh and the goat lady.
I seem to remember you moaning one time that Josh viewed you as nothing more than an arm ornament.
Normally it was Josh who showered her with wisdom, and it was somehow unseemly for this newcomer to take up where Josh had left off.
If the displeased look on his face was any indication, he must have heard Josh.
Women like to be treated like ladies now and then, Josh.
Lori always did have a way with Josh, even back when they were kids and she had a monstrous crush on him.
Josh shook his head.
Josh hit the floor with enough force to take the breath out of the average man.
But Josh wasn't the average man.
Losing Josh was like losing a brother.
If I need any help, I can always depend on Josh.
I want you to come to me all sweet and willing - without dragging Josh along.
Josh's words crept through her mind like an icy wind.
Josh had always been a good judge of character.
Never had she seen Alex so hostile - not even with Josh.
But your father didn't kiss me, and Josh didn't...
I couldn't find nothing on Josh without a last name, but Ed Plotke was in the phone book for six years between 1956 and 1962.
Or, sweet Edith wasn't so sweet and bashed Josh's head in and left him in the mine.
Do you think this Josh character—the miner Fred found out about—might be her father?
Did you do any more checking on Ed and Edith Plotke— the people from the 1961 newspaper—and missing Josh the miner?
I might need a little of that as well, but mostly I'm trying to track down a guy named Josh who worked in mining in Ouray back in the 1960's.
Dean pulled out the photocopies of the old newspaper ads requesting information on Josh published first by Edith Plotke and later by her father.
I wonder if anyone answered his ad and he caught up with Josh.
I wouldn't wanted to be in this Josh fellow's shorts when Ed Plotke caught up with him!
Are you kin to Josh?
But the Josh I knew wasn't any miner.
They all left about the same time—Ed and his family and this Josh fella.
I understand from Dawkins' son his old man was paying Josh pretty well to be his mine manager—up until August of 1961 when Josh disappeared.
What makes you think it's the same Josh?
He disappeared about the same time as the newspaper ad and his name was Josh.
Josh salted that mine and strung along the owner just enough to get a salary out of him.
Dawkins, Sr. had never hired another mine manager after Josh and never so much as mentioned the Lucky Pup after that time—to his sons or his wife.
Josh did some work for her and lived there.
Josh Mulligan—the bones finally had a name.
Certainly he has no ties to Josh Mulligan of forty years ago, or the Dawkins, or the Lucky Pup mine.
He's the illegitimate son of Josh 'Bones' Mulligan and he killed Billy Langstrom to shut him up!