BANTERER Synonyms

• a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts

• an actor in a comedy

• of or relating to or characteristic of comedy

• a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts

• arousing or provoking laughter

• someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way

• a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages

• a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes

• a person who does something thoughtless or annoying

• an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent

• a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester

• someone who plays practical jokes on others

• a worker who teases wool

• someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

• an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest

• a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution

• an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show

• a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

• a device for teasing wool

• a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

• mental ability

• a witty amusing person who makes jokes