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bantery

/ˈbæntəɹi/

bantery adjective: full of banter or good-humored raillery.

Adjective

bantery (comparative more bantery, superlative most bantery)

  1. Full of banter or good-humored raillery.
    • Its wit is very copious, but slashy, bantery, and proceeds mainly by exaggeration and turning topsy-turvy; a rather barren species of wit.1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC
    • His voice clear, harmonious, and sonorous, had something of metallic in it, something almost plangent ... a strange, swift, sharp-sounding, fitful modulation, part of it pungent, quasi latrant, other parts of it cooing, bantery, lovingly quizzical, which no charm of his fine ringing voice (metallic...1857, Thomas Carlyle, “Lord Jeffrey”, in Reminiscences, volume 2, published 1881, page 51

Forms of bantery

comparativemore bantery
superlativemost bantery

Origin of bantery

From banter + -y.

Questions about bantery

What does bantery mean?
Bantery means full of banter or good-humored raillery.
What part of speech is bantery?
Bantery is an adjective.
How do you pronounce bantery?
Bantery is pronounced /ˈbæntəɹi/.

Words near bantery in the dictionary

  1. banterous
  2. banters
  3. bantersaurus rex
  4. Bantersaurus Rexes
  5. bantersome
  6. bantery
  7. Bantey
  8. banthine
  9. Banti's disease
  10. Banti's syndrome
  11. Bantian

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