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Definition of Josser
1. a clergyman [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Josser
Literary usage of Josser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anglo-Saxon Review by Randolph Spencer Churchill (1899)
"And you imagine " Old josser is a fool" to be realism. Let me tell you then that
Old josser is anything but a fool. The Rev. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"josser (popular), a synonym for a "prosser " or sponge. ... The reverend josser .
. . kept his fist in Foley fashion hammering the pulpit. ..."
3. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"... josser named Froude—Said some time ago, Oh, ... stale, my young josser.
It's what all the soap-crawlers say,—-If a party 'as "go" and "high ..."
4. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1879)
"... represented by 50, wo mean the sensation produced by red light of such intensity
that there aro exactly •!•!) other josser intensities of red ..."
5. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1872)
"josser v. Gilford, 4 Burr. 2141. The question, not only as regards claims to the
use of lights in general cases, ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... old josser who was to be replaced had rallied somewhat, and though the end
could not be far off, it was felt unkind to engage in any public act about ..."
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