Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 30, 2009
badinage \bad-n-AHZH\, noun:
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Light, playful talk; banter.
Light, playful talk; banter.
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I can just hear the badinage between the B.O. and Hugo Chavez - "Oh, won't it be lovely when all of the Americas are socialist-Marxist states like your lovely Venezuela!"
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Badinage comes from French, from badiner, "to trifle, to joke," badin, "playful, jocular."
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