Word Meanings - BADINAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BADINAGE)

• Banter
• Badinage
• chaff
• mockery
• derision
• ridicule
• irony
• jeering
• raillery

Related words: (words related to BADINAGE)

• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• BADINAGE
  Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.
• CHAFFER
  One who chaffs.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• JEERER
  A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.
• BANTER
  1. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered
• BANTERER
  One who banters or rallies.
• JEER
  A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery. Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears. Swift.
• CHAFFERN
  A vessel for heating water. Johnson.
• IRONY
  1. Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles. Woodward. 2. Resembling iron taste, hardness, or other physical property.
• JEERS
  See
• CHAFFING
  The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter.
• JEERING
  Mocking; scoffing. -- n.
• DERISION
  1. The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision
• CHAFFY
  1. Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. Chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail. Coleridge. 2. Light or worthless as chaff. Slight and chaffy opinion. Glanvill. Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. Bearing or covered with dry scales,
• CHAFFERER
  One who chaffers; a bargainer.
• MOCKERY
  1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. Grace at meals
• RAILLERY
  Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. Addison.
• CHAFF
  The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle. (more info) 1. The glumes or husks
• CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
  Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
• CHIFF-CHAFF
  A species of European warbler ; -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.