From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishjoshjosh /dʒɒʃ $ dʒɑːʃ/ verb [intransitive, transitive] old-fashionedJOKE to talk to someone or laugh at them in a gentle joking way The guys josh him and call him an egghead.→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
josh• We josh and kid: our trusses, our elbow supports.• John-Augustus tried to josh himself into accepting that his own bout was no more than that. 