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banter 音标拼音: [b'æntɚ] n. 戏谑,嘲弄
vt.
vi. 戏弄,开玩笑 戏谑,嘲弄戏弄,开玩笑 banter n 1: light teasing repartee [ synonym: { banter}, { raillery}, { give- and- take}, { backchat}] v 1: be silly or tease one another; " After we relaxed, we just kidded around" [ synonym: { kid}, { chaff}, { jolly}, { josh}, { banter}] Banter \ Ban" ter\, n. The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good- humored raillery; pleasantry. [ 1913 Webster] Part banter, part affection. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster]
Banter \ Ban" ter\ ( b[ a^] n" t[~ e] r), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Bantered} ( b[ a^] n" t[~ e] rd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Bantering}.] [ 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.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Hag- ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. -- W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like. [ Archaic] [ 1913 Webster] If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. -- Chatham. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship' s chaplain. -- De Foe. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To challenge or defy to a match. [ Colloq. Southern and Western U. S.] [ 1913 Webster] 102 Moby Thesaurus words for " banter": backchat, badinage, beard, blandish, blarney, booing, brave, buffoonery, cajole, catcalling, chaff, chaffing, challenge, chitchat, clownishness, con, dare, defy, deride, derision, exchange, face, fleering, flippancy, fool, foolery, fooling, front, fun, give- and- take, gossip, gossipry, grinning, guy, harlequinade, haze, hissing, hooting, horseplay, jape, jeering, jest, jesting, jive, joke, joking, jolly, josh, joshing, kid, kidding, leering, levity, make fun of, make merry with, mock, mockery, monkeyshines, needle, outface, panning, persiflage, pleasantry, poke fun at, put on, quiz, rag, ragging, raillery, rally, rallying, razz, razzing, repartee, rib, ribbing, ride, ridicule, roast, roasting, satirize, scoffing, shenanigans, small talk, smart- aleckiness, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, soft- soap, sweet- talk, taunt, taunting, tease, teasing, tomfoolery, twit, twitting, venture, wheedle
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