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Badinage vs Jocular - What's the difference?

badinage | jocular |

As a noun badinage

is playful raillery; banter.

As a verb badinage

is to engage in badinage or playful banter.

As an adjective jocular is

humorous, amusing or joking.

badinage

English

Noun

(-)
  • Playful raillery; banter.
  • * 1994 , Lawrence G. DiTillio, Babylon 5 , "(Spider in the Web)", 13m 19s
  • [Talia:] You'll forgive me if I'm not in the mood for your usual badinage .
  • * 2005 , The Times (London), October 31
  • "No, this was more a night of bellowed barbed badinage , boisterous BS, outrageous declamations and defiant roars."

    Verb

  • To engage in or playful banter.
  • jocular

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (formal) Humorous]], amusing or [[joke, joking.
  • He was in a jocular mood all day.
    All we had was a short and jocular conversation.
  • * 1865 , , chapter IV:
  • From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular .
  • * 1896 , , chapter 15:
  • Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight.
  • * 1910 , :
  • Then papa began to get very tired of Jones, and fidgeted and finally said, with jocular irony, that Jones had better stay all night, they could give him a shake-down.

    Synonyms

    * (humorous) dismissive, jokey, unemotional, silly; see also

    Antonyms

    * (humorous) heartfelt, serious, sincere

    Derived terms

    * jocularly * jocularity * jocularness