badinage

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

badinage
    n 1: frivolous banter

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Badinage \Ba`di`nage"\, n. [F., fr. badiner to joke, OF. to
   trifle, be silly, fr. badin silly.]
   Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in
   an elegant badinage." --Warburton.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "badinage":
      backchat, banter, chaff, chaffing, exchange, fooling,
      fooling around, give-and-take, good-natured banter,
      harmless teasing, jape, jest, jive, joke, josh, joshing, kidding,
      kidding around, persiflage, pleasantry, raillery, rallying,
      repartee, ridicule, sport, twit

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