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单词 banterer
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banterern.

Brit. /ˈbant(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈbæn(t)ərər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: banter v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < banter v. + -er suffix1.
1. Originally: a person who mocks or makes fun of something serious, or who jokes at another person's expense. In later use: a person who engages in joking, friendly teasing, or raillery, esp. habitually.In quot. 1678 with allusion to the Banterers' Club, a society at Oxford University in the 2nd half of the 17th cent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun] > one who banters
railleur1655
raillier1663
banterer1678
rallier1678
badineur1734
quiz1797
quizzer1797
queerera1800
smoker1812
persifleur1829
chaffer1851
tease1853
leg-puller1887
josher1899
ragger1903
kibitzer1925
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > one who jests or jokes
jangler1303
bourder1330
triflera1382
mower1440
jester?1510
dizzardc1540
patch1549
pleasant1595
fiddle1600
motleya1605
banterer1678
morosoph1693
joker1729
farceur1781
funster1788
plaisanteur1828
cut-up1843
kibitzer1925
1678 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 419 The 'banterers' of Oxon (a set of scholars so called, some Mrs of Art) who made it and make it their employment to talk at a venture, lye and prate what nonsense they please. If they see a man talk seriously they talk fluidly nonsense and care not what he sayes.
1725 M. Davys Familiar Lett. in Wks. II. 307 Is Artander fallen so low in your Esteem, as to be thought a Banterer of his dearest Friend?
1847 H. Greville Diary 6 Nov. (1883) 205 Amusing, but too much of a banterer to please me.
1954 Daily Tel. 8 May 10/3 Mr. Stevens said, amid laughter, ‘I guess I'm not a very good banterer.’
2014 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Dec. (Sport section) It's definitely not the Saturday night blokey banterers that they seem to be desperately trying to pander to.
2. A trickster, swindler, or cheat. Cf. banter v. 3. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > practitioner > who bamboozles
banterer1709
bamboozler1712
mystery-monger1772
mystifier1821
mystificator1823
mystifica1849
prestidigitator1870
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 12 Gamesters, Banterers, Biters..are, in their several Species, the modern Men of Wit.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vi. 28 A sort of Fellows that they call Banterers and Bambouzlers, that play such Tricks.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 369 His dress, his gait, his accent..marked him out as an excellent subject for the operations of swindlers and banterers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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