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banterer|ˈbæntərə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who turns things into ridicule; later, one who indulges in good-humoured jest or raillery.
1678Wood Life 6 Sept. (D.) The banterers of Oxford (a set of scholars so called, some M.A.), who make it their employment to talk at a venture, lye and prate what nonsense they please; if they see a man talk seriously, they talk floridly nonsense, and care not what he says. 1691― Ath. Oxon. I./834 He being a reputed Banterer, I could never believe him. 1692E. Walker Epictetus' Mor. lxvii, Amongst rude Ignorants..To talk of Precepts, Maxims, and of Rules, Is to be laugh'd at, thought a Banterer. 1706Collier Refl. Ridic. 130 Profess'd Banterers chuse rather to disoblige their best Friends, than to lose the opportunity of speaking their Jest. 1847H. Greville Leaves fr. Diary 205 Amusing, but too much of a banterer to please me.
2. One who imposes on, or bamboozles. arch.
1709Steele Tatler No. 12 ⁋1 Gamesters, banterers, biters..are, in their several species, the modern men of wit. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull (1727) 58 A sort of fellows, they call banterers and bamboozlers, that play such tricks. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 369 An excellent subject for the operations of swindlers and banterers. |