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badinage
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Badinage
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bad·i·nage
/
ˌbæd
nˈɑʒ, ˈbæd
n
ɪdʒ
/
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[
bad-n-
ahzh
,
bad
-n-ij
]
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noun,
verb,
bad·i·naged,
bad·i·nag·ing.
noun
1.
light, playful banter or raillery.
verb (used with object)
2.
to banter with or tease (someone) playfully.
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;
cf.
bay
2
) +
-in
<
Latin
-īnus
-ine
1
) +
-age
-age
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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]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Etymonline
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
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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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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