badinage
\bad-n-AHZH, BAD-n-ij\
noun
1. light, playful banter or raillery.
Quotes
He had meant to confide in Lydgate, and discuss the money question with him, and he had meant to amuse himself for the few evenings of his stay by having a great deal of music and badinage with fair Rosamond, without neglecting his friends at Lowick Parsonage...
-- George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872
Origin
Badinage entered English in the 1600s from the French word badiner meaning "to joke." The suffix -age forms mass or abstract nouns in loanwords from French, such as voyage and courage.
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