1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Badinage, (French) foolery, buffonry.

1717 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Le B. de Fontenelle Lives French, Ital., & German Philosophers i. 75 The most agreeable Actor of the Italian Play-House, (who when he was off of the Stage, conceal'd the serious Spirit of a Philosopher, under a Mask of an inimitable Badinage).

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xvi. 317 The frivolous Charms or playful Badinage of a King's Mistress.

1744 in A. Pope Epist. 73 (note) So sure always, and just is our author's satyr, even in those places where he seems most to have indulged himself only in an elegant badinage.

1825 C. H. Phipps Eng. in Italy I. 165 The tone of mingled badinage and feeling.

1849 Littell's Living Age 26 May 341/2 She..places herself on his knees, torments him with all sorts of badinages, [etc.].

1880 B. Disraeli Endymion II. i. 11 Men destined to the highest places should beware of badinage.

1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 182 Even Mr Gladstone..would have, she felt, on perceiving Lady Caroline left off talking sense and horribly embarked on badinage.

1968 D. Moraes My Son's Father x. 188 Her deliberately loud, carrying laughter, her constant flow of badinage, and her beauty seemed to fascinate them.

1995 Daily Tel. 28 Sept. 15/1 All about me was gossip and clatter and badinage, wrapped up in the faint aroma of the dish of the day.

1778 R. J. Sulivan Let. Sept. in Observ. Tour Eng. (1780) xxi. 189 Blessing themselves for their escape, and badinaging each other with not a little pleasantry at the pretty figure they should have cut.

1804 W. Cooke Mem. C. Macklin 74 And the men who chose to go and badinage with them, did it at the peril of their character.

1861 All Year Round 13 July 383 To scoff away attacks, to badinage away reforms.

1878 W. Black Green Pastures iv. 34 She has badinaged him into the peerage.

1911 E. L. Hardy Some Recoll. (1961) 29 She chatted, and laughed, and ‘badinaged’ and feasted us like a very fairy god-mother.

1986 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 26 Sept. 34 I think I was the first customer (patron, that is) but Peggy Simmons came in while Robert was doing my paperwork, and we badinaged pleasantly.