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Webster 1913 Edition
Badinage
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Baˊdiˊnage′
,Noun.
[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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Badinage
BAD'INAGE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
badinage
badinage
English
Noun
badinage (countable and uncountable, plural badinages)
- Playful raillery; banter.
- 1882, W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe, Act I,
- 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,
- " […] 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, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXXII,
- […] 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,
- 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 […]
- 1882, W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe, Act I,
Translations
playful raillery; banter
Verb
badinage (third-person singular simple present badinages, present participle badinaging, simple past and past participle badinaged)
Translations
engage in badinage