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is bantering
  • present progressive of banter (3rd person singular).

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Amid all the melodrama � Junon has liver cancer and needs a bone-marrow transplant from someone of her blood � the conversation is bantering, often affectionate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Edwards is bantering Losing, and asks him if he will repeat his bet on this heat.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

His lady-love is bantering him on this frame of mind.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.