Synonyms for banterer
- clown
- jokester
- actor
- antic
- buffoon
- card
- comedian
- comic
- fool
- harlequin
- humorist
- joker
- madcap
- pantaloon
- prankster
- trickster
- wag
- wit
- cutup
- droll
- japer
- larker
- life of the party
- practical joker
- quipster
- standup comic
- wisecracker
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He was too much a banterer himself to miss the undercurrent of raillery.
He was too keen a banterer himself not to appreciate this gift in the poet.
Madame was fast losing patience, a grave mistake when one is dealing with a banterer.
He regained his health, as thorough a banterer as before, thinking life beautiful, and not seeing why it should not last for ever.
WORD ORIGIN
1670s, origin uncertain; said by Swift to be a word from London street slang. Related: Bantered; bantering. The noun is from 1680s.
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