noun
badinage
Badinage (noun) means Light, teasing talk between people; friendly banter.
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Light, teasing talk between people; friendly banter.
""No, this was more a night of bellowed barbed badinage, boisterous BS, outrageous declamations and defiant roars.""
— The Times, London (2005)
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Etymology
Borrowed from French badinage, from the verb badiner (“jest, joke”), itself from badin (“playful”), which goes back to Occitan badar (“gape”). It is distantly related to abash.
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"badinage" (noun) means light, teasing talk between people; friendly banter.
