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banter
[ ban-ter ]
noun
- an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery.
Synonyms: persiflage, pleasantry, badinage
verb (used without object)
- to use banter.
banter
/ ˈbæntə /
verb
- to speak to or tease lightly or jokingly
noun
- light, teasing, or joking language or repartee
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Derived Forms
- ˈbanterer, noun
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Other Words From
- banter·er noun
- banter·ing·ly adverb
- outbanter verb (used with object)
- un·banter·ing adjective
- un·banter·ing·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of banter1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of banter1
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Example Sentences
They banter with Alex Trebek and tell stories of life after Jeopardy!
It was all foreplay, however, for the best presenter banter of all time.
Toking up was implied by smoky backgrounds and non sequiturial banter.
That was Kim Novak delivering that cringe-inducing banter with Matthew McConaughey.
Miki Indyk, an Australian-Israeli living in Tel Aviv, was happy to hear the two banter.
This unreasoning, feminine obstinacy so wrought upon him that he permitted himself a smile and a lapse into irony and banter.
This brings to my Memory (what I cannot help smiling at) the bountiful Banter, you at this time endeavoured to put upon me.
"You might spare me that 'alias, the Eye' business," Black Hood said, some of his old-time banter returning.
A joke, a banter, a bon-mot, make more impression upon the man of the world than all the grave notions of his religion.
You love to banter; you love to give me that surname of 'Rich,' to me, now no less poor than Job.
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