Badinage

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Badinage \Ba`di`nage"\, n. [F., fr. badiner to joke, OF. to
     trifle, be silly, fr. badin silly.]
     Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in
     an elegant badinage." --Warburton.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  badinage
       n : frivolous banter

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "badinage":
     backchat, banter, chaff, chaffing, exchange, fooling,
     fooling around, give-and-take, good-natured banter,
     harmless teasing, jape, jest, jive, joke, josh, joshing, kidding,
     kidding around, persiflage, pleasantry, raillery, rallying,
     repartee, ridicule, sport, twit