banter
noun
an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery.
banterer
-
a word derived from
banter.
Example Sentences
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Those words might be applied to the world’s favorite fictional contemporary lover, fighter and banterer, James Bond.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2015
I’m normally a verbose text banterer who carefully crafts and revises witty text replies to friends.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2015
He was too keen a banterer himself not to appreciate this gift in the poet.
From The Grey Cloak by Thomas Mitchell Peirce
He was too much a banterer himself to miss the undercurrent of raillery.
From The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath
"I trust Mr. Woodward," observed his niece, "that you don't practise your abilities as a banterer upon our sex."
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
