Banter

Banter (banter)
v. t.	((?))
Ban"ter
[ imp. ** p. p.* Bantered(&?]); 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. Ba

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.

Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on
my haggard looks the next day.
W. Irving.

To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.

[Archaic]

If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them.
Chatham.

To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.

[Obs.]

We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars
with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.
De Foe.

To challenge or defy to a match.

[Colloq. Southern and Western U.S.]

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