▪ I. bantering, vbl. n.
(ˈbæntərɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
Raillery, jesting, banter, ‘chaff.’
| 1710 Swift T. Tub Apol. (R.), If this bantering, as they call it, be so despicable. 1857 Livingstone Trav. ix. 183 The audience acquiesce in this bantering and enforce silence. |
▪ II. ˈbantering, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Jesting, chaffing; bamboozling (arch.).
| 1691 Wood Ath. Oxon. I./893 He..delighted to please himself in a juvenile and bantring way. 1709 Berkeley The. Vision §135 A question downright bantering and unintelligible. 1879 Farrar St. Paul 703 His bantering answer to St. Paul's appeal. |