Bander vs Banter - What's the difference?
bander | banter |
(birdwatching) Someone who bands birds
* {{quote-news, year=1993, date=November 26, author=Jerry Sullivan, title=Field & Street, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=He got a banding permit in the early 30s and was an active bander for the rest of his life.}}
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 bander and banter
is that bander is while banter is good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.As a verb banter is
to engage in banter or playful conversation.bander
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*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.
