persiflate

Verb

persiflate (third-person singular simple present persiflates, present participle persiflating, simple past and past participle persiflated)

1. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To engage in persiflage; to banter.
   • We talked and persifflated all the way to London; and the idea of her will help me to a good chapter, in which I will make Pendennis and Blanche play at being in love, such a wicked false humbugging love, as two blase London People might act, and half deceive themselves that they were in earnest.1850 August 21, William Makepeace Thackeray, edited by Gordon N[orton] Ray, The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, volume IV, Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press...
   • In later school stories you get Marriott and Jimmy Silver putting their feet up and simply persiflating.1961, Richard Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the End, London: Barrie & Jenkins, published 1976, →ISBN, page 81