joshとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

josh (複数形 joshes)

1. An instance of good-natured banter.

動詞

josh (三人称単数 現在形 joshes, 現在分詞 joshing, 過去形および過去分詞形 joshed)

1. (transitive) To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion.
2. (intransitive) To make or exchange good-natured jokes.
   • 1902, Jack London, chapter XIV, in A Daughter of the Snows:

     We are old friends, did I not tell you? So I may, what you Americans call, josh with him.

   • 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business‎^[1]:

     “Cut that joshing out,” she said, coolly and briskly. “Who do you think you are talking to? Your check, please. Oh, Lordy!—”

   • 2013 September 13, Russell Brand, “Russell Brand and the GQ awards”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Boris, 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.

派生語

• josher
• joshingly

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