Badinage (noun)
ba-din-ahj
Humorous or witty conversation.
Mid 17th century: from French, from badiner ‘to joke’, from badin ‘fool’, based on Provençal badar ‘gape’.
Example sentences
“There’s only so much badinage I can take before we have to get down to the issues..”
Meraki (Μεράκι) (Greek) (noun) me-rah-kee To do something with soul, creativity, and love. When someone cooks with meraki, builds with meraki, writes with meraki, they’ve poured themselves into it. Derived…
