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Banter is light, friendly talk in which people make jokes and teasing remarks about each other. It can be a thing (their banter made everyone laugh) or a verb (they bantered all the way home). Friends do it on the bus, in a shop, in a changing room. British people use the word a lot; you will hear it in UK shows and around sport. The jokes are meant to feel warm, not to win. Though actually, people argue about this word now. Some say 'just banter' after a remark that is mean, sexist, or aimed at someone who is not laughing. Real banter is two-way: both people are in on it, and either person can stop it. If only one person is having fun, it has slipped into teasing. It is informal. You would not put it in a serious letter to a teacher.
From the word’s history
Recorded from the 1670s; origin unknown, possibly London street slang.
17 世紀出現，來源不明，有一說出自倫敦街頭俚語。
組成We do not know the origin for sure. It shows up in the 1670s as a verb and in the 1680s as a noun. People have guessed old London street slang, as if a lost stem bant plus -er (a suffix that can mean 'keep doing it'). Another guess links it to Irish bean, 'woman,' as if it meant 'women's talk.' Both are only guesses.
同家族的字
- banteringthe -ing form: the same teasing talk, or a teasing tone of voice
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
banternoun/ˈbæntə/
- 1
Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
- I was elected to the Executive Committee of the Vegetarian Society, and made it a point to attend every one of its meetings, but I always felt tongue-tied. Dr. Oldfield once said to me, 'You talk to me quite all right, but why is it that you never open your lips at a committee meeting? You are a drone.' I appreciated the banter. The bees are ever busy, the drone is a thorough idler.
- This bullying continuum illustrates the progressive escalation from harmless banter to bullying and criminal behaviours.
- 2
Good-humoured bits of monologue and/or conversational prompts used in any of a wide range of occupations that must frequently interact with the public (for example, store clerks, salespersons, nurses).
banterverb/ˈbæntə/
- 1
To engage in banter or playful conversation.
- 2
To play or do something amusing.
- 3
To tease (someone) mildly.
- 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.
- 4
To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
- 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.
- 5
To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
- [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; […]
- 6
To challenge to a match.
- 7
dialectalTo haggle; cheapen the price.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。