Badinage \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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
badinage
n : frivolous banter
WordNet (r) 2.0
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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