Difference between Banter and Raillery

BANTER vs RAILLERY: NOUN

A joking or jesting; good-humored ridicule or raillery; wit or humor; pleasantry.
Light teasing repartee
The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
Good humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
Good-humored, playful, or teasing conversation.
A challenge to a match or contest; the match or contest itself.

Light teasing repartee
Good-natured teasing or ridicule; banter.
An instance of bantering or teasing.
Good-humored pleasantry or ridicule; satirical merriment; jesting language; banter.
A jest.
Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.
Good-natured ridicule, jest or banter

To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally.
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.

To challenge; invite to a contest.
To impose upon or cheat, originally in a jesting or bantering way; bamboozle.
To address good-humored raillery to; attack with jokes or jests; make fun of; rally.

Prank, Kidding, Talk, Gossip, Joke, Chat, Chatter, Chitchat, Repartee, Give and take, Chaff, Kid, Jolly, Backchat, Raillery

Sarcasms, Nabokovian, Jolliness, Officiousness, Vulgarian, Crudities, Sneery, Jollity, Facetiousness, Persiflage, Ribaldry, Badinage, Give and take, Backchat, Banter

Spar, Josh, Kidding, Talk, Gossip, Joke, Chat, Chatter, Chitchat, Repartee, Give and take, Kid, Jolly, Backchat, Raillery

Sarcasms, Nabokovian, Jolliness, Officiousness, Vulgarian, Crudities, Sneery, Jollity, Facetiousness, Persiflage, Ribaldry, Badinage, Give and take, Backchat, Banter

Something said or done to excite laughter or amusement; a witticism, a jest; jesting, raillery; also, something that causes amusement, a ridiculous circumstance.
He published other books which showed a fecundity of wit, a playful strength of reasoning, and a provoking indomitableness of raillery.
The curious ways of living of my companions in the early days were a constant theme of raillery at their expense.
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