different between badinage vs pleasantry

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French badinage, from the verb badiner (“jest, joke”) from badin (“playful”), from Occitan badar (“gape”). Distantly related to abash.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæd.??n???/, /?bæd.?.?n??d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?d.??n??/
• Rhymes: -n???, -??d?, -??
• Hyphenation: bad?i?nage

Noun

badinage (countable and uncountable, plural badinages)

1. Playful raillery; banter.
   • 1882, W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe, Act I, [1]

     Your badinage so airy, / Your manner arbitrary, / Are out of place / When face to face / With an influential Fairy.

   • 1893, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, The Jew, translated by Linda Da Kowalewska, London: Heinemann, Chapter XIII, p. 254, [2]

     " […] God knows that if you were only safely married to Jacob I would not care how much you saw of Henri; but as you are not, I think these badinages are very ill-timed and take your mind off the principal business."

   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXXII, [3]

     […] take the word 'barnshoot'—a corruption of the Hindustani word bahinchut. A vile and unforgivable insult in India, this word is a piece of gentle badinage in England.

   • 1994, Lawrence G. DiTillio, Babylon 5, "Spider in the Web", 13m 19s

     [Talia:] You'll forgive me if I'm not in the mood for your usual badinage.

   • 2005, The Times (London), October 31

     "No, this was more a night of bellowed barbed badinage, boisterous BS, outrageous declamations and defiant roars."

   • 2007, Alessandro Bertolotti, Books of Nudes, Abrams, p. 92, [4]

     Described at the time as "photographic badinages" the photographs in Die Erotik in der Photographie include one of a nude model stretched out languidly on a bearskin […]

Translations

Verb

badinage (third-person singular simple present badinages, present participle badinaging, simple past and past participle badinaged)

1. To engage in badinage or playful banter.

Translations

French

Etymology

badin +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.di.na?/

Noun

badinage m (plural badinages)

1. joke; gag; wind-up
2. (figuratively) a trivial, simple task

Further reading

• “badinage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From French plaisanterie. Surface etymology is pleasant +? -ry

Noun

pleasantry (countable and uncountable, plural pleasantries)

1. A casual, courteous remark.
2. A playful remark; a jest.
   • 2014, Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard (in The Guardian, 18 November 2014)[1]

     Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries, the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.

3. (dated) Anything that promotes pleasure or merriment.

Usage notes

The word originally meant a joke or witticism. It is now generally used to mean only polite conversation in general (as in the phrase "exchange of pleasantries"), which is sometimes proscribed.

Translations

See also

• small talk