JOSH

[verb] [informal] - to joke, often with the intention of annoying (someone) in a playful wayDon't worry! I was just joshing when I said I'd lost the car keys. [I]The girls spent the morning joshing each other about their boyfriends and talking about what they were doing that evening. [T]When his friends found out he'd bought a car, they joshed him for having abandoned his green ideals. [T]