banter

1. (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.intransitive

2. (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.intransitive

3. (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.Examples: "Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit."; "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, […]"Synonyms: kid, wind up, chafftransitive

4. (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).Examples: "June 1804, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them."transitive

5. (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.Examples: "[W]e diverted ourſelves vvith bantering ſeveral other poor Scholars, vvith hopes of being at leaſt his Lordſhip's Chaplains and putting on a Scarf; […]"transitive

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