banter
意味
- (悪意のない)冗談,からかい
- …をひやかす,からかう
- 冗談をいう
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
1670s as verb, 1680s as noun. The origin is unknown, possibly from London street slang; ostensibly as *bant + -er (frequentative suffix). Possibly an Anglo-Gaelicism from the Irish bean (“woman”), so that "banter" means "talk of women."