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badinage

[bad-n-ahzh, bad-n-ij] Example Sentences Origin

bad·i·nage

[bad-n-ahzh, bad-n-ij] noun, verb, -naged, -nag·ing.
noun
1.
light, playful banter or raillery.
verb (used with object)
2.
to banter with or tease (someone) playfully.

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Origin:
1650–60; < French, equivalent to badin(er) to joke, trifle (verbal derivative of badin joker, banterer < Old Provençal: fool; bad(ar) to gape (< Vulgar Latin batāre; compare bay2) + -in < Latin -īnus -ine1) + -age -age
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  • Sometimes there's no harm in a little badinage among colleagues.
  • Like her heroine, she has a knack for clever badinage that can sometimes veer into preciousness.
  • Chuck's many talents do not now and did not then include rough, boisterous badinage.
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badinage (ˈbædɪˌnɑːʒ)
 
n
playful or frivolous repartee or banter
 
[C17: from French, from badiner to jest, banter, from Old Provençal badar to gape]

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badinage
"light railery," 1650s, from Fr. badinage "playfulness, jesting," from badiner (v.) "to jest, joke," from badin "silly, jesting," from O.Prov. badar "to yawn, gape," from L.L. badare "to gape," from *bat-, the root of abash.
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