This week's theme: words related to repartee. badinage (bad-NAHZH BAD-nahzh) noun
Light, playful remarks; banter. [From French badinage, from badiner (to banter).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=badinage "The black belt in invective was conspicuously won, however, in his exchange with (the Pulitzer Prizewinner) William Kennedy, whose initial letter of rejection is greeted with a promise to 'jam a bronze plaque far into your small intestine'. Their splenetic badinage is one of the brightest threads in this book." David Profumo; A Good Life; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Oct 18, 1997. Sponsored by: Monthly French, German, Italian and Spanish cultural audio magazines for intermediate-to-advanced learners. http://web.champs-elysees.com/wsmith1 And you? Get your message about your business, products, or services to more than 600,000 daily readers in this space. Contact us: sponsorsATwordsmith.org (replace AT with @). ............................................................................ It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. -Janos Arany, poet (1817-1882) Looking for a word/quotation previously featured in AWAD? Archives are at http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/badinage.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/badinage.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/badinage.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
