Banter vs Brigade - What's the difference?
banter | brigade |
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.
A group of people organized for a common purpose.
(military) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
(derogatory) A group of people who share views or beliefs.
To form troops into a brigade
As nouns the difference between banter and brigade
is that banter is good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation while brigade is .As a verb banter
is to engage in banter or playful conversation.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.
Synonyms
* (tease) kid, wind upDerived terms
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Anagrams
*brigade
English
Noun
(en noun)- a work brigade'''; a fire '''brigade
- More sympathy for career criminals from the bleeding-heart brigade !