[f. as prec. + -ING1.] Raillery, jesting, banter, ‘chaff.’
1710. Swift, T. Tub, Apol. (1747), xv. (R.). If this Bantering, as they call it, be so despiseable a Thing, whence comes it to pass they have such a perpetual Itch towards it themselves?
1857. Livingstone, Trav., ix. 183. The audience acquiesce in this bantering and enforce silence.
