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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
banter, bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, derision, derisive, derisory, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hissing, hooting, jeering, joshing, kidding, leering, levity, mockery, mocking, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, razzing, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting
Dictionary Results for panning:
1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pan \Pan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Panned; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Panning.]
   1. (Mining) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by
      washing in a kind of pan. [U. S.]
      [1913 Webster]

            We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and
            panning out, which is the last process of separating
            the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand.
                                                  --Gen. W. T.
                                                  Sherman.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly.
      [PJC]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
panning \pan"ning\, n.
   The act or process in which heavier ores are concentrated by
   agitating a sample of crushed ore under water in a shallow
   pan, thus washing away the lighter particles from the sample;
   as, panning for gold. See pan[1], v. t. and pan[1], v. i.
   [PJC]

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