josser

• “Please yourself!" the Maluka laughed, and with a flash of white teeth and an infectious chuckle Cheon laughed and nodded back; then, still chuckling, he waddled away to the kitchen and took possession there, while we went to our respective dinners, little guessing that the truest-hearted, most faithful, most loyal old "josser" had waddled into our lives.”

  We of the Never-Never

• “So he called at a place he had heard of in Shaftesbury Avenue, where there was a "josser" who arranged it for him quite simply by means of a bill of sale upon his furniture.”

  The Combined Maze

• “Has any fellow, of the dime a dozen type, it might with some profit some dull evening quietly be hinted — has any usual sort of ornery josser, flat — chested fortyish, faintly flatulent and given to ratiocination by syncopation in the elucidation of complications, of his greatest”

  Finnegans Wake

• “Pilbrow, always up to the times, used an idiom entirely modern, but Despard-Smith still brought out slang that was fresh at the end of the century – ‘crab', and ‘josser',* and ‘by Jove'.”

  languagehat.com: STRATA OF SPEECH.

• “But as last I was brought before some old josser who was high up in the force, and who seemed to have no end of a head on his shoulders.”

  The Man Who Was Thursday

• “Wy, I knowed a long lathy-limbed josser as felt up to champion form.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892

• “He was no longer a cur, that josser, but a gentleman, rather, a brother, a friend ....”

  The Bill-Toppers

• “But that josser of a Jimmy, talking like that at his ease!”

  The Bill-Toppers

• “Another josser who's sure to talk a lot of nonsense!" cried Lily.”

  The Bill-Toppers

• “Mdlles.;" or else, from time to time, some josser, a friend of the manager's or an agent, prowling around among the flesh-colored tights.”

  The Bill-Toppers

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