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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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