bantersome
English
Etymology
From banter + -some.
Adjective
bantersome (comparative more bantersome, superlative most bantersome)
- Characterised or marked by banter
- 1964, Newsweek, volume 63, page 19:
- He was less bantersome by the weekend, threatening after one burst of shouts to hold Tonahill in contempt.
- 1998, Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah, Ogoni's Agonies, page 187:
- At that time, Saro-Wiwa was locked in a critical and somewhat bantersome exchange with fellow writer and critic, Odia Ofeimun.
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Anagrams
- aborsement