badinage
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nˈɑʒ, ˈbæd noun
1.
light, playful banter or raillery.
verb (used with object)
2.
to banter with or tease (someone) playfully.
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| —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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Word Origin & History
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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Example sentences
Greenberg's language, as eloquent in barbed badinage as in wistful rumination.
Sometimes there's no harm in a little badinage among colleagues.
The badinage feels natural precisely because directors and actors are so attentive to what bodies say that words don't.
Chuck's many talents do not now and did not then include rough, boisterous badinage.
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