Badinage \Ba`di`nage"\, n. [F., fr. badiner to joke, OF. to
   trifle, be silly, fr. badin silly.]
   Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in
   an elegant badinage." --Warburton.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	badinage
    n 1: frivolous banter

	

	26 Moby Thesaurus words for "badinage":
   backchat, banter, chaff, chaffing, exchange, fooling,
   fooling around, give-and-take, good-natured banter,
   harmless teasing, jape, jest, jive, joke, josh, joshing, kidding,
   kidding around, persiflage, pleasantry, raillery, rallying,
   repartee, ridicule, sport, twit