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verb

Banter v. t. (past & past part. bantered; pres. part. bantering)

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. "Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day."

To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like. (Archaic) "If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them."

To delude or trick, esp. by way of jest. (Obs.) "We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain."

To challenge or defy to a match. (Colloq. Southern and Western U. S.)

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"Bantering" Quotes from Famous Books

... over the smooth country road, Forbes shouting a bantering good-by and Janey waving a triumphant dinner pail, while David, trudging on his way, experienced the desolate feeling of the one who is left behind. Across fields he came to the tiny, thatched cottage of Miss Rhody Crabbe, who stood on the crumbling ...

— David Dunne - A Romance of the Middle West • Belle Kanaris Maniates

... never unbosomed himself to the agents or to his chaplain so far as to put himself in their power. Cromwell had obtained some information of these intrigues; but, unable to discover any real ground of suspicion, he contented himself with putting Monk on his guard by a bantering postscript to one of his letters. "Tis said," he added, "there is a cunning ...

— The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans - to the Accession of King George the Fifth - Volume 8 • John Lingard and Hilaire Belloc

... on the brink of a lake, whereon ships and gondolas floated, what time Abraham welcomed the three celestial messengers, unobtrusively disguised with heavy pinions. What delight as the quaking of each of the four cups of wine loomed in sight, what disappointment and mutual bantering when the cup had merely to be raised in the hand, what chaff of the greedy Solomon who was careful not to throw away a drop during the digital manoeuvres when the wine must be jerked from the cup at the mention of each plague. And what a solemn ...

— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... were as unsubstantial as stage scenery; the besiegers were the villains of the piece who would meet with their deserts before the curtain fell; there was comic by-play in his ways of beguiling the tedium and the lassitude of the siege, in the bantering messages he sent out to the besiegers, and now and then even in his garrison orders. The little garrison was permeated by the exosmose action of his cheery optimism and humour during seven weary months of waiting; and while it might seem to some that he was treating the serious situation with unbecoming ...

— A Handbook of the Boer War • Gale and Polden, Limited

... inspiring. There was no formality, no attitude of the superior person; he treated everyone, whether rich or poor, with the same friendly solicitude. But within these limits he varied his tone to suit the temperament of the patient. Sometimes he was firm, sometimes gently bantering. He seized every opportunity for a little humorous by-play. One might almost say that he tactfully teased some of his patients, giving them an idea that their ailment was absurd, and a little unworthy; ...

— The Practice of Autosuggestion • C. Harry Brooks

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