Battered vs Bantered - What's the difference?
battered | bantered |
(batter)
Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.
*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
(label) Coated with batter.
(banter)
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 verbs the difference between battered and bantered
is that battered is past tense of batter while bantered is past tense of banter.As an adjective battered
is beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.battered
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered -looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}
bantered
English
Verb
(head)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.
