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badinage

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bad⋅i⋅nage

  [bad-n-ahzh, bad-n-ij] noun, verb, -naged, -nag⋅ing.
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–noun
1. light, playful banter or raillery.
–verb (used with object)
2. to banter with or tease (someone) playfully.
Origin:
1650–60; < F, equiv. to badin(er) to joke, trifle (v. deriv. of badin joker, banterer < OPr: fool; bad(ar) to gape (< VL batāre; cf. bay 2 ) + -in < L -īnus -ine 1 ) + -age -age
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bad·i·nage   (bād'n-äzh')   
n.  Light, playful banter.

[French, from badin, joker, from Provençal badar, to gape, from Latin *batāre.]
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