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单词 badine
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badinen.adj.

Forms: 1600s badeen, 1700s badine.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French badin.
Etymology: < French badin (noun) light-hearted person (1690), fool, idiot (1452 in Middle French; also used spec. to denote the fool or clown in drama), (adjective) light-hearted, cheerful (a1680), foolish, silly (1543) < Old Occitan badin , adjective and noun (this is first attested later, 16th cent., although synonymous formations from the same base are found earlier) < badar to gape (12th cent.; < post-classical Latin badare to gape: see bay v.3) + -in -ine suffix1. Compare badinage n.
Obsolete. rare.
A. n.
A clown (used in extended use of a bird in quot.).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > performance of jester or comedian > [noun] > jester or comedian
jugglerc1175
foolc1300
jangler1303
fool sagec1330
ribald1340
ape-ward1362
japer1377
sage fool1377
harlotc1390
disporter?a1475
jocular?a1475
joculatora1500
jester?1518
idiot1526
scoffer1530
sporter1531
dizzardc1540
vice1552
antic1564
bauble-bearer1568
scoggin1579
buffoon1584
pleasant1595
zany1596
baladine1599
clown1600
fiddle1600
mimic1601
ape-carrier1615
mime1616
mime-man1631
merry man1648
tomfool1650
pickle-herring1656
badine1670
puddingc1675
merry-andrew1677
mimical1688
Tom Tram1688
Monaghan1689
pickled herring1711
ethologist1727
court-foola1797
Tom1817
mimer1819
fun-maker1835
funny man1839
mimester1846
comic1857
comedian1860
jokesman1882
comique1886
Joey1896
tummler1938
alternative comedian1981
Andrew-
1670 W. Temple Poems 48 Such a Badeen ne'er came upon the Stage. So droll, so monkey in his play and rage; Sprawling upon his back, and pitching pyes.
B. adj.
Light-hearted, frivolous, flippant.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > lack of seriousness > [adjective]
gamelike1592
sportive1593
badine1685
galliardizing1695
flippant1724
unsedate1823
flip1847
1685 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Άνεκδοτα Ὲτερουιακα 453 A dialogue compleatly boufon, waggish, and badeen, between the head and the cap.
1760 E. Montagu Let. 7 Sept. (1825) III. 225 I have had two sides of folio paper from the Bishop of London so affectionate, so polite, so badine, it would surprise you.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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