badinage

1650–60; < French, equivalent to badin(er) to joke, trifle (verbal derivative of badin joker, banterer < Old Provençal: fool; bad(ar) to gape (< Vulgar Latin batāre; cf. bay²) + -in < Latin -īnus -ine¹) + -age -age

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For another hour he kept patient, dawdling in Turner's place and giving as good as he got in the way of badinage.
The Sheriff of Badger|George B. Pattullo
His vein had been badinage of the serious and reproving kind, and the girl had been bored to distraction.
The Half-Hearted|John Buchan
It carries me back to my days at the play, I swear, to hear him and Lady Berenicia clashing rapiers in badinage.
In the Valley|Harold Frederic
While this badinage went on Trent gazed at the woman with idle curiosity.
Anthony Trent, Master Criminal|Wyndham Martyn

And Honey, who always responded in kind to any badinage, received this in silence.
Angel Island|Inez Haynes Gillmore

British Dictionary definitions for badinage

badinage

/ (ˈbædɪˌnɑːʒ) /

noun

playful or frivolous repartee or banter

Word Origin for badinage

C17: from French, from badiner to jest, banter, from Old Provençal badar to gape

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badinage

noun

verb (used with object), bad·i·naged, bad·i·nag·ing.

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