badinagenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈbæd.ɪ.nɑːʒ/us/ˈbæd.ɪ.nɑːʒ/literaryconversation or remarks that are joking and not serious
Synonym
banter
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Informal talking & conversation
- a problem shared is a problem halved idiom
- bants
- blarney
- chatter
- chew
- conversation-stopper
- converse
- exchange
- gas
- jaw
- make yourself understood idiom
- natter
- orally
- pass
- pillow talk
- shoot the breeze idiom
- shoptalk
- talk shop idiom
- understand
- wash your dirty linen in public idiom
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Examples from literature
- Badinage was exchanged freely with friends standing on the platform.
- He does so dearly love badinage.
- She waved aside his two-edged badinage.
- Still she refused to meet him on his ground of badinage.
- This may sound like badinage, but it is uttered in sad earnest.