different between banter vs badinage

English

Etymology

1670s as verb, 1680s as noun. The origin is unknown, possibly from London street slang; ostensibly as *bant + -er (frequentative). Possibly an Anglo-Gaelicism from the Irish bean (“woman”), so that "banter" means "talk of women."

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bænt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bænt?/
• Rhymes: -ænt?(?)

Noun

banter (uncountable)

1. Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.

   Synonyms: pleasantry, raillery

Translations

Verb

banter (third-person singular simple present banters, present participle bantering, simple past and past participle bantered)

1. (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
2. (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
3. (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.

   Synonyms: kid, wind up
4. (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
   • June 1804, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

     If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them.

5. (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
6. (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.

Translations

Derived terms

• bant

References

Further reading

• Michael Quinion (1996–2021) , “Banter”, in World Wide Words

Anagrams

• Barnet, Bernat, barnet

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).