Word of the Day - Badinage Badinage can be a noun or a verb. The noun means, light, playful banter or raillery. The verb is used as an object such as badinaged, or badinaging, and mean to banter with or tease someone playfully. Examples badinage. Sometimes there's no harm in a little badinage among colleagues. Chuck's many talents do not now and did not then include rough, boisterous badinage. The badinage feels natural precisely because directors and actors are so attentive to what bodies say that words don't.