badinage

badinage
n
1. banter, raillery, repartee, wordplay, quiddity; teasing, Inf. kidding, Inf. ribbing, Inf. joshing; joking, jesting, pleasantry, drollery, jocularity, waggery; ridicule, mockery, Inf. ragging, Brit. quizzing, persiflage, derision.
v
2. banter, tease, Inf. kid, Inf. rib, Inf. josh; chaff, rally, twit, Inf. pick or get on, Inf. needle; make fun of, mock, ridicule, jeer at, Inf. rag; laugh at, deride, fleer, taunt.

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  • badinage — [ badinaʒ ] n. m. • 1663; « sottise » 1541; de 1. badin ♦ Action de badiner. ⇒ amusement , badinerie, jeu, plaisanterie. « Sur un ton de badinage et de raillerie » (G. Lecomte). ⊗ CONTR. Gravité, sérieux. ● badinage nom masculin Action de badiner …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • badinage — BADINAGE. s. mas. Action ou discours de badin. C est un pur badinage. Tout cela n est que badinage. f♛/b] Il signifie aussi figur. Certaine façon de faire, certaine manière particulière d agir. Elle est faite au badinage. Ce valet est fait au… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • badinage — Badinage. s. m. Action de badin. C est un pur badinage. tout cela n est que badinage. Il signifie aussi fig. Certaine façon de faire, certaine maniere particuliere d agir. Elle est faite au badinage. il l a faite à son badinage. Badinage. Se dit… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • badinage — badinage, persiflage, raillery denote a kind of banter. Badinage is applied to banter that is playful and delicate, persiflage to banter that is derisive but not cutting, and raillery to banter that is keen and often sarcastic in its ridicule… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • badinage — light railery, 1650s, from Fr. badinage playfulness, jesting, from badiner (v.) to jest, joke, from badin silly, jesting, from O.Prov. badar to yawn, gape, from L.L. badare to gape, from *bat , the root of ABASH (Cf. abash) …   Etymology dictionary

  • badinage — index speak Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • badinage — фр. [бадина/ж] badinerie [бадинэри/] шутка, шалость; название скерцообразных пьес в сюитах 18 в …   Словарь иностранных музыкальных терминов

  • badinage — (izg. badinȃž) m DEFINICIJA glazb. pov. stavak brza tempa i dvodijelne mjere u suitama francuskih i njemačkih skladatelja 18. st.; badinerie ETIMOLOGIJA fr …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • badinage — Badinage, Badinerie, Nugae …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • badinage — ► NOUN ▪ witty conversation. ORIGIN French, from badiner to joke …   English terms dictionary

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