badinage en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˌbɑd.ɪˈnɑʒ/ (US)
- /ˌbæd.ɪˈnɑːdʒ/ (UK)
- /ˌbæd.ɪˈnɑːʒ/ (UK)
Etymology
Borrowed from French badinage, from the verb badiner (“jest, joke”) from badin (“playful”), from Occitan badar (“gape”). Distantly related to abash.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) 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:[…] 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.
1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC: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:"[…] 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."
1893, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, chapter XIII, in Linda Da Kowalewska, transl., The Jew, London: Heinemann, page 254:[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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| badinages | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (10)
sv munhuggande (playful raillery; banter) · fi huulenheitto (playful raillery; banter) · ru подшу́чивание (playful raillery; banter) · kmr henekqerf (playful raillery; banter) · kmr henektinaz (playful raillery; banter) · sv raljeri (playful raillery; banter) · bg закачки (playful raillery; banter) · kmr henek (playful raillery; banter) · cmn 打趣 (playful raillery; banter) · cs škádlení (playful raillery; banter)