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badinage

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bad·i·nage  (bdn-äzh)
n.
Light, playful banter.
[French, from badin, joker, from Provençal badar, to gape, from Latin *batre.]
badinage [ˈbædɪˌnɑːʒ]
n
playful or frivolous repartee or banter
[from French, from badiner to jest, banter, from Old Provençal badar to gape]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.badinage - frivolous banter
backchat, banter, raillery, give-and-take - light teasing repartee
badinage
noun banter, joking, teasing, mockery, chaff, pleasantry, repartee, wordplay, drollery, raillery, persiflage She tried to respond to his light-hearted badinage.
Translations
badinage [ˈbædɪnɑːʒ] N → chanzas fpl, bromas fpl
badinage [ˈbædɪnɑːʒ] n (literary) (= banter) → badinage m
bad language n → grossièretés fpl
to use bad language → dire des grossièretés


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He had meant to confide in Lydgate, and discuss the money question with him, and he had meant to amuse himself for the few evenings of his stay by having a great deal of music and badinage with fair Rosamond, without neglecting his friends at Lowick Parsonage:--if the Parsonage was close to the Manor, that was no fault of his.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Anne, as she listened to the ceaseless badinage that went on between him and Phil, wondered if she had only imagined that look in his eyes when she had told him she could never care for him.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
The man and the woman stood face to face - the light badinage which had been passing between them suddenly ended - the man, with his sin stripped bare, mercilessly exposed, the woman, his accuser, passionately eloquent, pouring out her scorn upon a mute victim.
A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
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