Banter vs Mockery - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between banter and mockery

is that banter is good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation while mockery is the action of mocking; ridicule, derision.

is to engage in banter or playful conversation.

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Good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.

It seemed like I'd have to listen to her playful banter for hours.

(en verb)

To engage in banter or playful conversation.

To play or do something amusing.

To tease (someone) mildly.

* Washington Irving

Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.

* Charlotte Brontë

Mr. Sweeting was bantered about his stature—he was a little man, a mere boy in height and breadth compared with the athletic Malone

To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).

* Chatham

If they banter' your regularity, order, and love of study, ' banter in return their neglect of them.

To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.

* Daniel De Foe

We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.

(transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.

* (tease) kid, wind up

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(mockeries)

The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.

Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.

(obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.

Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.

The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.

* We often use make a mockery' of someone or something, meaning to ' mock them. See also

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