Badinage (noun)
bad-in-azj
Light, playful banter or raillery.
Badinage was first recorded in English around 1650-60 and comes from French, from the verb badin(er), meaning “to joke, trifle.”
Example sentences
“The dinner party was full of playful badinage and nostalgic talks.”
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…
