banterer

plural banterers

1. One who banters, one who engages in bantering.

   The Banterer had left Bantry the day before, and the delay was caused by the fog, which necessitated putting into Ventry harbour for the night, instead of going straight on to Dingle.

   1892, Archaeologia Cambrensis, page 153

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   “Are you bantering, or are you in earnest?” cries the father, with a most solemn voice. “Indeed, sir,” answered Jones, “I scorn the character of a banterer. I came to you in most serious earnest,[…].”

   1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones

   “He’s a professional extrovert, a banterer, a sports fanatic,” said the Rev. Edwin H. Obermiller, director of vocations for the Congregation of Holy Cross at the University of Notre Dame.

   2009 February 25, Paul Vitello, “A Guy’s Guy: Dolan’s Personality May Help Archdiocese Recruit More Priests”, in New York Times