josser n.3
a simpleton, a fool; a victim for criminal gamblers.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Swell’s Night Guide 114/1: Ben, a sam, a green, a jossy, a soft fellow. | |
| ‘’Arry at Stonehenge’ Punch 28 Aug. in (2006) 85: Dry up, you old Josser. | |
| in Punch 26 Nov. 252: Shut yer face, you pattering josser! | |
| [perf. Gus Elen] ‘Down the Dials’ 🎵 And if the josser finds the card, we bangs him with a brick. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 11 May 2/3: [W]hat the silly josser wanted to defy the electric disturbance for does not appear. | |
| Magnet 10 July 8: Silly josser! | |
| Sport (Adelaide) 22 Jan. 5/3: You can bet on these jossers [...] /They will always drink grog. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Bound East for Cardiff (1923) 6: That silly ol’ josser! Wot the ’ell would ’e know abaht anythink? | |
| Secret of Chimneys (1956) 19: A josser like myself from the backwoods of Canada would be making all sorts of bloomers. | |
| Hibiscus Heart 93: Didn’t know old Gordon, silly old josser, was a bird fancier. | |
| Mirror (Perth) 6 Nov. 12/3: You old josser. | |
 | [perf. Gus Elen] ‘’E don’t know who 'e are’ 🎵 Which shows the josser don’t know where ’e are. |
In derivatives
foolish, gullible.
| ‘The fces I’ve Seen’ 🎵 There's the bookie black with shouting odds at double barrelled force, / ’Til he makes some jossey backer put his money on a nacker. |