Badinage

I am persuaded, if all gay badinage were prefaced by an explanation, it would be infinitely better received.

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

"[…] 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."

[…] 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.

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

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

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 […]