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		banteringadjective marked by or expressive of mild or good-natured teasingthe gently bantering tone of the couple's conversation  chaffing, fooling, funning, jesting, joking, joshing, kidding, quizzical, rallying, razzing, ribbing bandying, quippingbaiting, deriding, derisive, derisory, hassling, heckling, jeering, mocking, needling, ridiculing, tauntingcontemptuous, disdainful, sarcastic, scornful  banteringverbpresent participle of banterto make jokesthe teacher bantered pleasantly, albeit a bit awkwardly, with the students at the school dance  chaffing, fooling, funning, gagging, japing, jesting, jiving, joking, jollying, joshing, kidding, quipping, wisecracking, yukking(or yucking, slang) gibing(or jibing), hazing, jeering, mocking, ragging, rallying, razzing, ribbing, ridiculing, teasingcaricaturing, lampooning, parodying, satirizingamusing, diverting, entertaining cracking wise  |