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Badinage

Badinage Meaning & Definition
Badinage Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Badinage?

[n] frivolous banter

Synonyms | Synonyms for Badinage:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Badinage: backchat | banter | chaff | chaffing | exchange | fooling | fooling around | give-and-take | good-natured banter | harmless teasing | jape | jest | jive | joke | josh | joshing | kidding | kidding around | persiflage | pleasantry | raillery | rallying | repartee | ridicule | sport | twit

See Also | backchat | banter | give-and-take | raillery

Badinage In Webster's Dictionary

\Ba`di`nage"\, n. [F., fr. badiner to joke, OF. to trifle, be silly, fr. badin silly.] Playful raillery; banter. ``He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage.'' --Warburton.

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