banteringn.
/ˈbant(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbæn(t)ərɪŋ/, /ˈbæntrɪŋ/ Humorous ridicule. Now usually: teasing or humorously mocking remarks; conversation characterized by this; banter.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun] > action of
japingc1380
jesting1526
raillying1612
banteringa1672
rallying1673
smoking1781
ragging1788
quizzing1795
chaffing1826
quizzification1856
joshing1864
barracking1885
ribbing1913
mickey-taking1967
a1672 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 152 Delighting himself in mirth, and in that which was afterwards called buffooning and bantering.
1710 J. Swift Tale of Tub (ed. 5) Apol. sig. a3v If this Bantring as they call it, be so despisable, whence comes it to pass they have such a perpetual Itch towards it themselves?
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. ix. 183 The audience acquiesce in this bantering and enforce silence.
1913 J. W. Hopkins Cross Providences vii. 118 The second mate all the while kept up a running fire of coarse jokes and bantering.
2017 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 23 June 1 I'll miss his bantering, the back and forth with him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
banteringadj.
/ˈbant(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbæn(t)ərɪŋ/, /ˈbæntrɪŋ/ Characterized by good-humoured teasing or banter (in various senses of banter n.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [adjective]
bantering1660
rallying1662
quizzing1797
quizzical1801
chaffing1826
chaffy1855
bantery1862
joshing1864
barracking1885
mickey-taking1959
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [adjective] > employing trickery
trifling?a1400
bantering1660
hoaxing1808
mystifyingc1827
bluffing1850
four-flushing1901
spoofing1920
shenaniganning1924
1660 J. Bellamy tr. Origen Against Celsus i. xxxiv. 136 He goes on in the same Comical and Bantering Strain.
1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §135. 158 A Question down right Bantering and Unintelligible.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xlii. 359 His bantering answer to St. Paul's appeal.
1933 Boys' Life May 12/1 He pretended to show an interesting in the bantering chatter still going on.
2018 New Yorker 27 Aug. 72/3 If she lacked Oliver's depth of knowledge, she made up for it with a fresh bantering style.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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