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badinage

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good-natured teasing or exchanging of clever remarks
  • the sophisticated badinage of the characters in plays by Oscar Wilde

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The first known use of badinage was circa 1658

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“Badinage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badinage. Accessed 27 Nov. 2021.

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