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badinage

Syllables: bad·i·nageUK/ˌbæd.ɪˈnɑːʒ//ˌbɑd.ɪˈnɑʒ/

badinage noun: playful raillery; banter.

Noun

badinage (countable and uncountable, plural badinages)

  1. Playful raillery; banter.
    • I am persuaded, if all gay badinage were prefaced by an explanation, it would be infinitely better received.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Different Opinions”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 282
    • Your badinage so airy, / Your manner arbitrary, / Are out of place / When face to face / With an influential Fairy.1882, W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe, act I

Verb

badinage (third-person singular simple present badinages, present participle badinaging, simple past and past participle badinaged)

  1. To engage in badinage or playful banter.

badinage meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

badinage in Bengali

হালকা ঠাট্টা, মজার কথোপকথন

badinage in Malayalam

repartee, banter, witty conversation
നർമ്മോക്തി, ലഘുപരിഹാസം, കളിവചനം, കളിവാക്ക്, ഉപഹാസം, വിനോദവചനം

Examples of badinage in a sentence

  • A vile and unforgivable insult in India, this word is a piece of gentle badinage in England.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz...
  • [Talia:] You'll forgive me if I'm not in the mood for your usual badinage.1994, Lawrence G. DiTillio, “Spider in the Web”, in Babylon 5, 13m 19s:
  • "No, this was more a night of bellowed barbed badinage, boisterous BS, outrageous declamations and defiant roars."2005 October 31, The Times, London:
  • 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 […]2007, Alessandro Bertolotti, Books of Nudes, Abrams, page 92:

Forms of badinage

Noun
pluralbadinages
Verb
third-person singular presentbadinages
present participlebadinaging
past participlebadinaged
pastbadinaged

Origin of badinage

Borrowed from French badinage, from the verb badiner (“jest, joke”) from badin (“playful”), from Occitan badar (“gape”). Distantly related to abash.

Words that rhyme with badinage

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Questions about badinage

What does badinage mean?
Badinage means playful raillery; banter.
What is badinage in Bengali?
Badinage in Bengali is হালকা ঠাট্টা, মজার কথোপকথন. See Badinage meaning in Bengali.
How do you use badinage in a sentence?
A vile and unforgivable insult in India, this word is a piece of gentle badinage in England.
What part of speech is badinage?
Badinage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce badinage?
Badinage is pronounced /ˌbæd.ɪˈnɑːʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of badinage?
The plural of badinage is badinages.

Words near badinage in the dictionary

  1. badigeons
  2. Badilla
  3. Badillas
  4. Badillo
  5. Badillos
  6. badinage
  7. badinaged
  8. badinages
  9. badinaging
  10. badine
  11. badinerie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: badinage (page history and authors); badinage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); badinage (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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