badinage
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French badinage, from the verb badiner (“jest, joke”) from badin (“playful”), from Occitan badar (“gape”). Distantly related to abash.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːʒ, -ɑːdʒ
- Hyphenation: bad‧i‧nage
Noun
badinage (countable and uncountable, plural badinages)
- Playful raillery; banter.
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 282:
- I am persuaded, if all gay badinage were prefaced by an explanation, it would be infinitely better received.
- 1882, W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe, Act I, [1]
- Your badinage so airy, / Your manner arbitrary, / Are out of place / When face to face / With an influential Fairy.
- 1893, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, The Jew, translated by Linda Da Kowalewska, London: Heinemann, Chapter XIII, p. 254, [2]
- " […] God knows that if you were only safely married to Jacob I would not care how much you saw of Henri; but as you are not, I think these badinages are very ill-timed and take your mind off the principal business."
- 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
- […] take the word 'barnshoot'—a corruption of the Hindustani word bahinchut. A vile and unforgivable insult in India, this word is a piece of gentle badinage in England.
- 1994, Lawrence G. DiTillio, Babylon 5, "Spider in the Web", 13m 19s
- [Talia:] You'll forgive me if I'm not in the mood for your usual badinage.
- 2005, The Times (London), October 31
- "No, this was more a night of bellowed barbed badinage, boisterous BS, outrageous declamations and defiant roars."
- 2007, Alessandro Bertolotti, Books of Nudes, Abrams, p. 92, [3]
- Described at the time as "photographic badinages" the photographs in Die Erotik in der Photographie include one of a nude model stretched out languidly on a bearskin […]
Translations
playful raillery; banter
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Verb
badinage (third-person singular simple present badinages, present participle badinaging, simple past and past participle badinaged)
Translations
engage in badinage
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
badinage m (plural badinages)
- joke; gag; wind-up
- (figuratively) a trivial, simple task
Further reading
- “badinage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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