badinage
badinage
Definition
badi·nage (bad′'n äz̸h′)
noun
playful, teasing talk; banter
Etymology: Fr < badiner, to jest, make merry < badin, fool < Prov badar, to gape < VL *batare, to gape, trifle
badinage
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- male: Sexual badinage of a heterosexual male by another such cannot be completely equated with like badinage by him of a woman.
Converse of object
- exchange: Wise advisers did not exchange badinage with such redoubtable characters!
Adjective modifier
- heavily-scripted: Their heavily-scripted badinage is the one point where all these various niggles crystallize into perilously clunking, on occasion downright unfunny, material.
- sexual: Sexual badinage of a heterosexual male by another such cannot be completely equated with like badinage by him of a woman.
- like: Sexual badinage of a heterosexual male by another such cannot be completely equated with like badinage by him of a woman.
Preposition: with
- character: Wise advisers did not exchange badinage with such redoubtable characters!
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