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Перевод: banter

[существительное]
добродушное подшучивание; шутка ;
[глагол]
подшучивать; добродушно подшучивать; добродушно подтрунивать; добродушно поддразнивать

Тезаурус:

1. They said hello cheerily as we passed, and for no particular reason other than mindless banter I concluded our exchange with some hopeless attempt at humour, which happily has been blacked from my memory.
2. This kind of socialization involved, for example, finding out how to drink without getting hopelessly or degradingly drunk; how to indulge in banter and when to risk a fight.
3. Observed in operation on visits to schools, Easton's community relations police were quickly able to establish a rapport with the children and revelled in the joking and informal banter, although Easton is fortunate in having very experienced constables with long service in community relations, which is vital because a three-week course hardly qualifies as sufficient training.
4. Arriving in Cyprus ahead of Othello, an understandably nervous Desdemona is forced to hang around on the quay and, in an effortful charade of lightheartedness, swap bawdy banter with Iago and company.
5. 15.40 For pupils working towards level 9, teaching should demonstrate how speech ranges from intimate or casual spontaneous conversation, eg jokes, anecdotes, banter, gossip, argument , through discussion, commentary and debate to more formal forms - lectures, sermons, and formulaic utterances such as toasts, oaths, and banns .
6. But the preferred tone is one of indulgent banter.
7. Father Paddy waited while they enjoyed his banter.
8. Sometimes they would sit on opposite sides of the aisle so that they could turn their banter into a public performance.
9. There are others less admirable, who can banter away with colleagues and friends but who save their bile of resentment for their spouse or family.
10. If the tests were truly designed for the control of "anti-social influences in the arts", as the Report said, then how could the law seem other than misconceived when a decade or more of legal scrutiny and barristers' banter had been publicly squandered on the anti-social potential of pubic hair, the peculiar dangers of which seemed clearer to the police than to juries.
11. Khrushchev lavished banquets, ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing - then, with mysterious abruptness, withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question, where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops.
12. Accounts of watching football composed by ordinary spectators emphasize how familiar many people were to one another, the wide age-range, and the lively banter.
13. Ware was a shy man, given to covering his shyness with a good deal of banter.