单词 | banterer |
释义 | banterern. 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. 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). < n.1678 |
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