(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
(v. t.) To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.
(v. t.) To challenge or defy to a match.
(n.) The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
Example Sentences:
(1) It shows that we still have some way to go to end bigoted banter.” The exchange was also met with disdain on Twitter.
(2) The LMA exacerbated the issue on Thursday night with a statement of its own, in which Mackay apologised for sending texts that “were disrespectful to other cultures” but he “was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter”.
(3) The man who cannot hold his own in repartee will even learn other men's jokes off by heart, so that he can fill a void in the general banter.
(4) It added: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter."
(5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(6) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(7) Lunchtime read: How banter conquered Britain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Guardian Design Team There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, you can eat at restaurants called Scoff & Banter or buy an “Archbishop of Banterbury” T-shirt for £9.99.
(8) Jack soon suspected that the cynical comments emanating from behind him belonged to a Manchester City supporter but, typically, enjoyed the banter.
(9) It featured – and then featured the end of – a new character, Uncle Steve, and banter between Rick (Roiland) and his detested son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell).
(10) If the news that Wendi Deng had joined her husband Rupert Murdoch on Twitter and promptly engaged in flirtatious banter with the likes of Ricky Gervais seemed too good to be true, that's because it was.
(11) Gordon Brown spoke fluently and even managed some banter with cabinet colleagues.
(12) Naseer insisted the emails consisted only of harmless banter about looking for a potential bride after going to England to take computer science classes.
(13) But instead of condemning such behaviour as sexist, the Bar Council chairman described it as “banter”.
(14) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
(15) I tried to address it and have a bit of bunny-based banter with him: "Why are you wearing a full rabbit costume?"
(16) These recordings will include an approximation of the original Smile album, plus outtakes and studio banter.
(17) "I've met all my colleagues this week so I've received a little bit of banter from them which has been good natured.
(18) We survived for six hours with only scraps of quality banter, three cans of Rockstar and a lukewarm quarter chicken that my mate Karl smuggled in his Superdry man bag.
(19) He added that the banter on Top Gear was an "imperfect science" that would "invariably upset some viewers at some point".
(20) Is banter the act of whispering "IDon'tFancyYouIDon'tFancyYou" with your eyes?
Tease
Definition:
(v. t.) To comb or card, as wool or flax.
(v. t.) To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
(v. t.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
(v. t.) To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
(n.) One who teases or plagues.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
(2) "My great ambition is to be president of a golf club where I am playing," he teased .
(3) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
(4) To examine this proposal VIP concentrations in plasma from arterial, gastric venous and intestinal venous blood were measured in healthy conscious lambs before, during and after teasing with, and sucking of milk.
(5) Teased-fiber techniques were used to record from 28 CMHs that innervated the hairy skin of upper or lower limb in anesthetized monkeys.
(6) When the behavior of the nontarget partners was controlled, children initiated more physical aggression, nonverbal teasing, and regression after experiencing negative social comparison with the partners than after following the other treatments.
(7) Paxman claimed that at the same lunch Morgan had teased Ulrika Jonsson about the details of a private conversation she had had with Erikson, who was England manager at the time.
(8) A teased fiber technique established that the ratio of internodal distance and fiber diameter in urodele nerves was essentially similar to that in Anolis.
(9) He teased readers by adding: “By the time you read this I will know whether it has worked.” The American Academy of Neurology is sceptical about the treatment .
(10) At one point he teases us with the intro to 'When You Were Mine' at another he wittily picks out the theme to The Beverly Hillbillies .
(11) We did not perform a sexy version of oppression or create a teasing "naughty" campaign.
(12) Surgery should be performed ideally before the early school years, when the child is subjected to the most teasing, provided both parents and the patient have realistic expectations and really want the major reconstruction.
(13) Her teenage sons, who haven't read the book, tease her often, which is jolly; her mother, though distressed to find that Christian and Anastasia never seem to shower after sex, is delighted; even her father-in-law likes the book.
(14) As soon as he could, Coltrane escaped to art school in Glasgow, where he had much more fun – despite being teased for sounding posh – but discovered he wasn't an artist.
(15) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
(16) At 12 h and 24 h after crush, however, no ovoids were apparent and the number of incisures present was determined from teased fibres by light microscopy using oil immersion.
(17) Zidane, however, was in the mood to tease his admirers.
(18) The histological study using the teasing method demonstrated the existence of unmyelinated fibres, in the thoraco-cervical region of the vagus nerve, becoming progressively myelinated from the periphery to the nodose ganglion.
(19) The most common finding in teased fibres from each leprosy type was paranodal demyelination affecting successive internodes.
(20) Functional properties of neurons regenerating axons into the grafts were studied by recording from single regenerated fibers teased from the grafts.