Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Light, playful banter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Light playful banter or raillery.
- noun Synonyms Raillery, banter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Playful raillery; banter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Playful
raillery ;banter . - verb To engage in badinage or playful
banter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun frivolous banter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In describing a scene in which sexist badinage is exchanged at an account meeting, McLean correctly points out that “the series is critical of this limited view and is not afraid to spell [its criticism] out.”
Mad About Mad Men 2009
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In describing a scene in which sexist badinage is exchanged at an account meeting, McLean correctly points out that “the series is critical of this limited view and is not afraid to spell [its criticism] out.”
Mad About Mad Men 2009
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In describing a scene in which sexist badinage is exchanged at an account meeting, McLean correctly points out that “the series is critical of this limited view and is not afraid to spell [its criticism] out.”
Mad About Mad Men 2009
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I stipulate that this sounded idiotic, but when you are facing a large and menacing Viking, badinage is the first casualty.
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I stipulate that this sounded idiotic, but when you are facing a large and menacing Viking, badinage is the first casualty.
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Similarly, with "badinage" - the phonetic meaning comes out as "bad in age" - memory, sex, teeth.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Similarly, with "badinage" - the phonetic meaning comes out as "bad in age" - memory, sex, teeth.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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But instead of joining what Charmian termed the badinage, the psychoanalysts remained aloof.
Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999
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The badinage is the young man's defect in art; the brag is his defect in nature.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892 Various
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The word is "badinage" and, as defined on AWAD, means "Light, playful remarks; banter."
Naughty and Nice barbylon 2006
tolland commented on the word badinage
I love how this word sounds.
July 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word badinage
"The badinage was inconsequential, reduced to who knew whom and wasn't the weather glorious in St. Tropez, or the Bahamas, Hawaii, or Hong Kong?"
- Robert Ludlum, 'The Matarese Countdown'.
June 30, 2009
rolig commented on the word badinage
Is badinage ever consequential?
June 30, 2009
yarb commented on the word badinage
Only unintentionally, I think. Poor writing by Ludlum there.
July 1, 2009
sionnach commented on the word badinage
Is persiflage ever not airy?
July 1, 2009
tumbel commented on the word badinage
"Strahs and the actors are shitting us all the time with this clipped badinage..." TONY theater review
March 20, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word badinage
Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for Baggage referred to in your letter of". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 20, 2013
qms commented on the word badinage
No single word is sufficiently large
To capture the spirit of persiflage.
That genial quality
Of taunting frivolity
At play is a partner to badinage.
July 18, 2014