Gibe vs Banter - What's the difference?
gibe | banter |
A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
* 1603 , , Hamlet , act 5, scene 1:
To perform a jibe (2, 3).
To agree.
To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
(ambitransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.
* Jonathan Swift
* Jonathan Swift
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 a proper noun gibe
is .As a noun banter is
good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.As a verb banter is
to engage in banter or playful conversation.gibe
English
Alternative forms
* gybe * jibeNoun
(en noun)- Hamlet : Alas, poor Yorick! . . . Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Verb
(en-verb)- That explanation doesn't gibe with the facts.
- Draw the beasts as I describe them, / From their features, while I gibe them.
- Fleer and gibe , and laugh and flout.
Anagrams
*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.
