noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Good-natured teasing. countable, uncountable

   "He weaved away down the street, amidst the jovial joshings of the miners, to which he retorted with bibulous good nature."

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of josh form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

atticbadinagebanterbanteringbanteringbiting

Example

More examples

"He weaved away down the street, amidst the jovial joshings of the miners, to which he retorted with bibulous good nature."

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.