Bicker vs. Banter — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bicker and Banter
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Bicker
To engage in a bad-tempered quarrel, often in a petty manner over something trivial; squabble.
Banter
The playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks
There was much good-natured banter
Bicker
To flicker or glitter
"bicker like a flame" (Robert Browning).
Banter
Exchange remarks in a good-humoured teasing way
The men bantered with the waitresses
Bicker
To move or flow with a rippling or gurgling sound.
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Banter
Good-humored, playful, or teasing conversation.
Bicker
An angry quarrel; a squabble.
Banter
To engage in banter
Bantered with her colleagues during a coffee break.
Bicker
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
They bickered about dinner every evening.
Banter
To speak to in a playful or teasing way
"She laughed and bantered him a little, remembering too late that she should have been dignified and reserved" (Kate Chopin).
Bicker
To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.)
Banter
Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
Bicker
(of rain) To patter.
Banter
(intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
Bicker
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
Banter
(intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
Bicker
A skirmish; an encounter.
Banter
(transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
Bicker
A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
Banter
(transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
Bicker
A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
Banter
(transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
Bicker
The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members.
Banter
To challenge to a match.
Bicker
(Scotland) A wooden drinking-cup or other dish.
Banter
To haggle; cheapen the price.
Bicker
A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.
Banter
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.
Bicker
A skirmish; an encounter.
Banter
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.
Bicker
A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
Banter
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.
Bicker
A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention.
Banter
To challenge or defy to a match.
Bicker
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.
Banter
The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
Part banter, part affection.
Bicker
To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle.
Petty things about which men cark and bicker.
Banter
Light teasing repartee
Bicker
To move quickly and unsteadily, or with a pattering noise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame.
They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.
Banter
Be silly or tease one another;
After we relaxed, we just kidded around
Bicker
A quarrel about petty points
Bicker
Argue over petty things;
Let's not quibble over pennies
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