badinage
(noun) frivolous banter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
badinage (countable and uncountable, plural badinages)
Playful raillery; banter.
badinage (third-person singular simple present badinages, present participle badinaging, simple past and past participle badinaged)
To engage in badinage or playful banter.
Source: Wiktionary
Ba`di`nage", n. Etym: [F., fr. badiner to joke, OF. to trifle, be silly, fr. badin silly.]
Definition: Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 January 2025
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; “the political ferment produced new leadership”; “social unrest”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
