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Definition: Bantering |
BanteringAdjective1. Cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bantering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonyms: BanteringSynonyms: facetious (adj), tongue-in-cheek (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bantering |
| English words defined with "bantering": banteringly ♦ facetious ♦ tongue-in-cheek. (references) |
| "Bantering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 46.15% of the time. "Bantering" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 46.15% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 30.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 23.08% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "bantering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 开玩笑 (Bantered). (various references) | |
Finnish | ilkamoiva (facetious, mocking), ilkamointi (flippancy, jesting). (various references) | |
French | badin, plaisintain. (various references) | |
German | neckend (badinaging, jollying, teasing). (various references) | |
Manx | gannidagh (affronting, derider, derisive, ludicrous, mocker, mocking), gammanagh (frolicsome, playful, sportive, sporty). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anteringbay.(various references) | |
Romanian | persiflare (banter, persiflage). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bantering": banteringly. (additional references) | |
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"Bantering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: banerji, bangering, banterings, bastarding, batering, ratnering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bantering" (pronounced ba"ntering) |
| 5 | -n t er i ng | centering, countering, encountering, entering, mentoring, reentering, splintering. |
| 4 | -t er i ng | administering, altering, bartering, battering, bettering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, catering, chartering, chattering, clustering, cluttering, doctoring, factoring, faltering, festering, filibustering, filtering, flattering, fluttering, fostering, frittering, glittering, guttering, hectoring, lettering, littering, loitering, mastering, metering, mitering, monitoring, motoring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neutering, pestering, petering, plastering, puttering, registering, scattering, sculpturing, sequestering, shattering, sheltering, shuttering, slaughtering, smattering, spattering, sputtering, stuttering, sweltering, teetering, tottering, tutoring, unflattering, uttering, watering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, belaboring, beleaguering, bewildering, bickering, blundering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, censoring, clamoring, clobbering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doddering, embroidering, empowering, endangering, endeavoring, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, figuring, fingering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, foundering, fracturing, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glowering, grandfathering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, levering, lingering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, maundering, meandering, measuring, minoring, mirroring, mongering, mothering, murdering, murmuring, neighboring, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scouring, severing, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, simmering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spiering, sponsoring, squandering, staggering, structuring, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, towering, transpiring, triggering, uncovering, unwavering, ushering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-n-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: berating, rebating, tabering. | |
-2 letters: aginner, anteing, antigen, banteng, beaning, bearing, beating, earning, engrain, entrain, gentian, granite, grannie, gratine, ingrate, nearing, ranting, regnant, renting, ringent, tangier, tearing. | |
-3 letters: aigret, anting, argent, baiter, banger, baning, banner, bannet, banter, baring, barite, bating, begirt, benign, binate, binger, earing, eating, engirt, gainer, gaiter, gannet, garnet, ginner, graben, gratin, inaner, ingate, innate, intern, narine, ratine, rating, reagin, rebait, regain, regina, retain, retina, tanner, taring, terbia, tinner, triage. | |
-4 letters: agent, anent, anger, antre, bairn, barge, began, begat, begin, being, benni, binge, biter, brain, brant, brent, brine, bring, entia, garni, giant, giber, grain, grant, grate, great, inane, inert, inner, inter, irate, niter, nitre, range, regna, reign, renig, renin, retag, retia, riant, taber, targe, tenia, terai, terga, tiger, tinea, tinge, tragi, train, tribe, trine. | |
-5 letters: abet, abri, ager, agin, airn, airt, ante, anti, bait, bane, bang, bani, bare, barn, bate, bean, bear, beat, bent, berg, beta, bier, bine, bint, bite, brae, brag, bran, brat, bren, brie, brig, brin, brit, earn, etna, gaen, gain, gait, gane, garb, gate, gear, gent, geta, gibe, gien, girn, girt, gnar, gnat, grab, gran, grat, grin, grit, nabe, near, neat, nine, nite, rage, ragi, rain, rang, rani, rant, rate, rein, rent, ring, rite, tain, tang, tare, tarn, tear, tern, tier, tine, ting, tire, trig. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-i-n-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: bartending, brigantine, interabang. | |
+2 letters: banteringly, brigantines, hibernating, inbreathing, inebriating, interabangs, interrobang, reobtaining. | |
+3 letters: heartburning, interrobangs, nonbreathing, reinhabiting, tabernacling. | |
+4 letters: decarbonating, defibrinating, heartburnings, subgeneration. | |
+5 letters: concelebrating, subgenerations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6E 74 65 72 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -. - . .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a n t e r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006E 0074 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366780867184758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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