[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Jesting, chaffing; bamboozling (arch.).
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I./893. He … delighted to please himself in a juvenile and bantring way.
1709. Berkeley, The. Vision, § 135. A question downright bantering and unintelligible.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, 703. His bantering answer to St. Paul’s appeal.
