Bicker vs. Banter

Bickerverb

To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.

‘They bickered about dinner every evening.’;

Banternoun

Good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.

Bickerverb

To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)

Banterverb

(intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.

Bickerverb

(of rain) To patter.

Banterverb

(intransitive) To play or do something amusing.

Bickerverb

To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

Banterverb

(transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.

Bickernoun

A skirmish; an encounter.

Banterverb

(transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).

Bickernoun

A fight with stones between two parties of boys.

Banterverb

(transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.

Bickernoun

A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.

Banterverb

To challenge to a match.

Bickernoun

The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.

Banterverb

To address playful good-natured ridicule to, - the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.

‘Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.’;

Bickernoun

(Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.

Banterverb

To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.

‘If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them.’;

Bickernoun

A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

Banterverb

To delude or trick, - esp. by way of jest.

‘We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.’;

Bickernoun

A skirmish; an encounter.

Banterverb

To challenge or defy to a match.

Bickernoun

A fight with stones between two parties of boys.

Banternoun

The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.

‘Part banter, part affection.’;

Bickernoun

A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.

Banternoun

light teasing repartee

Bickerverb

To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.

‘Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.’;

Banterverb

be silly or tease one another;

‘After we relaxed, we just kidded around’;

Bickerverb

To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.

‘Petty things about which men cark and bicker.’;

Banternoun

the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks

‘there was much good-natured banter’;

Bickerverb

To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.

‘They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.’;

Banterverb

exchange remarks in a good-humoured teasing way

‘the men bantered with the waitresses’;

Bickernoun

a quarrel about petty points

Bickerverb

argue over petty things;

‘Let's not quibble over pennies’;