nounhumorous or witty conversation : cultured badinage about art and life.ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from French, from badiner‘to joke,’ from badin ‘fool,’ based on Provençal badar‘gape.’
It's seems like half the English words are French. WTF is up with that? I understand when it comes to culinary terms, because the French are a bunch of hedonists and epicures.
English mugs other languages and rifles through their pockets for words - France was closest.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I've heard that before. So true.
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