Vocabulary : Banter to Banzai

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. ;; To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like. ;; To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest. ;; To challenge or defy to a match. ;; The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
Bantered : of Banter
Banterer : One who banters or rallies.
Bantering : of Banter
Bantingism : A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

Bantling : A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]
Bantu : A member of one of the great family of tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person.
Banxring : An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.
Banyan : A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
Banzai : Lit., May you live ten thousand years; -- used in salutation of the emperor and as a battle cry.

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