Banger vs Banter - What's the difference?
banger | banter |
(British): A firework that makes a bang.
(British, slang) A woman's breast.
(British, NZ, slang) A sausage.
(slang) An old, worn-out car.
(US, slang) A cylinder in a car.
(US, slang) A member of a gang, shortened version of the word gangbanger.
Good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
To engage in banter or playful conversation.
To play or do something amusing.
To tease (someone) mildly.
* Washington Irving
* Charlotte Brontë
To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
* Chatham
To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
* Daniel De Foe
(transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
As nouns the difference between banger and banter
is that banger is : A firework that makes a bang while banter is good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.As a verb banter is
to engage in banter or playful conversation.banger
English
Noun
(en noun)- bangers and mash
- He drives a little four-banger to work.
Synonyms
* (sausage) snag (Australia) * (car) bucket, beater, hooptie, jalopy, wreckAnagrams
* ----banter
English
Noun
(-)- It seemed like I'd have to listen to her playful banter for hours.
Verb
(en verb)- Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.
- Mr. Sweeting was bantered about his stature—he was a little man, a mere boy in height and breadth compared with the athletic Malone
- If they banter' your regularity, order, and love of study, ' banter in return their neglect of them.
- We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.