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    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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