badinage

Meaningto gape

Common meaning: light, playful conversation

badinageto gapeSkeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), p. 47 · scan

Journey through time

Latinbadare‘to gape’source
Frenchmeaning shiftsto gape → playful talkbadinage‘playful talk’source
Englishbadinage‘light, playful conversation’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin badare ‘to gape’.

Roots

badare Latin “to gape”

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