banter, raillery, give-and-take, backchat
(noun) light teasing repartee
kid, chaff, jolly, josh, banter
(verb) be silly or tease one another; “After we relaxed, we just kidded around”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
banter (uncountable)
Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
Synonyms: pleasantry, raillery
banter (third-person singular simple present banters, present participle bantering, simple past and past participle bantered)
(intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
(intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
(transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
(transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
(transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
(transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
• (tease): kid, wind up
• Barnet, barnet
Source: Wiktionary
Ban"ter, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bantered(p. pr. & vb. n. Bantering.] Etym: [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.]
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. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. W. Irving.
2. 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. Chatham.
3. 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. De Foe.
4. To challenge or defy to a match. [Colloq. Southern and Western U.S.]
Ban"ter, n.
Definition: The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good- humored raillery; pleasantry. Part banter, part affection. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
