English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

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

Pronunciation [ edit ]

Noun [ edit ]

badinage (countable and uncountable, plural badinages)

Translations [ edit ]

playful raillery; banter Bulgarian: закачки (bg) f pl ( zakački )

Chinese: Mandarin: 打趣 (zh)

Czech: škádlení n Interlingue: jocada burleríe

Kurdish: henek (ku) henektinaz (ku) henekqerf (ku)

Russian: подшу́чивание (ru) n ( podšúčivanije )

Swedish: raljeri (sv) c , munhuggande n

Verb [ edit ]

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

To engage in badinage or playful banter.

Translations [ edit ]

French [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

badin +‎ -age

Pronunciation [ edit ]

IPA (key) : /ba.di.naʒ/

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Noun [ edit ]

badinage m (plural badinages)

joke; gag; wind-up ( figurative ) a trivial, simple task

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