badinage

1. 1.

   frivolous banter

   Broaderbanter

Other forms of badinage

plural

badinages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about badinage

What does badinage mean?

badinage means "frivolous banter".

How many syllables are in badinage?

badinage has 3 syllables: ba-di-nage. The stress falls on "ba".

Is badinage a common word?

badinage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.