Banter

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Banter \Ban"ter\, n.
     The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or
     good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
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           Part banter, part affection.             --Tennyson.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Banter \Ban"ter\ (b[a^]n"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bantered}
     (b[a^]n"t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bantering}.] [Prob.
     corrupted fr. F. badiner to joke, or perh. fr. E. bandy to
     beat to and fro. See {Badinage}, and cf. {Barter} fr. OF.
     barater.]
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     1. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person
        addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the
        subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about
        my credulity.
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              Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then
              bantered on my haggard looks the next day. --W.
                                                    Irving.
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     2. To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait,
        habit, characteristic, and the like. [Archaic]
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              If they banter your regularity, order, and love of
              study, banter in return their neglect of them.
                                                    --Chatham.
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     3. To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest. [Obs.]
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              We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor
              scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's
              chaplain.                             --De Foe.
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     4. To challenge or defy to a match. [Colloq. Southern and
        Western U. S.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  banter
       n : light teasing repartee [syn: {raillery}, {give-and-take}, {backchat}]
       v : be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just
           kidded around" [syn: {kid}, {chaff}, {jolly}, {josh}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "banter":
     backchat, badinage, beard, blandish, blarney, booing, brave,
     buffoonery, cajole, catcalling, chaff, chaffing, challenge,
     chitchat, clownishness, con, dare, defy, deride, derision,
     exchange, face, fleering, flippancy, fool, foolery, fooling, front,
     fun, give-and-take, gossip, gossipry, grinning, guy, harlequinade,
     haze, hissing, hooting, horseplay, jape, jeering, jest, jesting,
     jive, joke, joking, jolly, josh, joshing, kid, kidding, leering,
     levity, make fun of, make merry with, mock, mockery, monkeyshines,
     needle, outface, panning, persiflage, pleasantry, poke fun at,
     put on, quiz, rag, ragging, raillery, rally, rallying, razz,
     razzing, repartee, rib, ribbing, ride, ridicule, roast, roasting,
     satirize, scoffing, shenanigans, small talk, smart-aleckiness,
     smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting,
     soft-soap, sweet-talk, taunt, taunting, tease, teasing, tomfoolery,
     twit, twitting, venture, wheedle