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To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.

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  1. v. t. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
  2. v. t. To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
  3. v. t. To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.
  4. v. t. To challenge or defy to a match.
  5. n. The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
  6. n. light teasing repartee
  7. v. be silly or tease one another
  8. The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.Part banter, part affection. Tennyson.
  9. v:33/n:67 n. light teasing repartee