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badinage

[bad-n-ahzh, bad-n-ij] / ˌbæd nˈɑʒ, ˈbæd n ɪdʒ /


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Badinage could not wither him nor cussing stale his infinite variety.

From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace

Badinage was exchanged freely with friends standing on the platform.

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles

So what of Secrets mouthed beneath the Rose, Rumorous Badinage of These and Those?

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace

Badinage, ridicule and misrepresentation aside, however, there can be no reasonable doubt that bundling did prevail to a very great extent in the New England colonies from a very early date.

From Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America by Stiles, Henry Reed

Badinage of this sort did not displease the fisherman.

From Rainbow's End by Beach, Rex Ellingwood




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