Badinage Definition

bădn-äzh
noun
Light, playful banter.
American Heritage
Playful, teasing talk; banter.
Webster's New World

Playful raillery; banter.

Wiktionary
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verb

To engage in badinage or playful banter.

Wiktionary

Origin of Badinage

  • French from badin joker from Provençal badar to gape from Latin batāre

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French badinage, from the verb badiner (“to jest, joke”).

    From Wiktionary

Badinage Sentence Examples

  • Between the two of them, they keep up a relentless barrage of badinage.

  • Wise advisers did not exchange badinage with such redoubtable characters!

  • Badinage and other light railleries were encouraged, provided they were impersonal and no threat to good fellowship or good breeding.

  • Sexual badinage of a heterosexual male by another such cannot be completely equated with like badinage of a heterosexual male by another such cannot be completely equated with like badinage by him of a woman.

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Words Starting With

BBABAD

Words Ending With

EGEAGE

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