Badinage vs Jocular - What's the difference?
badinage | jocular |
Playful raillery; banter.
* 1994 , Lawrence G. DiTillio, Babylon 5 , "(Spider in the Web)", 13m 19s
* 2005 , The Times (London), October 31
To engage in or playful banter.
(formal) Humorous]], amusing or [[joke, joking.
* 1865 , , chapter IV:
* 1896 , , chapter 15:
* 1910 , :
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
(-)- [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."
Verb
jocular
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was in a jocular mood all day.
- All we had was a short and jocular conversation.
- From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular .
- Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight.
- 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.