Badinage.

Playful raillery, banter (French), from the verb badiner, to joke or jest. The noun badine means a switch, and in France they catch wild ducks by covering a boat with switches, in which the ducks seek protection. A person quizzed is like these wild ducks.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Bad Books
Bad Debts
Bad Form
Bad Lot (A)
Bad Shot (A)
Badaud
Badge of Poverty
Badge-men
Badger (A)
Badger (To)
Badinage
Badinguet
Badingueux
Badminton
Baffle
Bag
Bag (To)
Bags
Bag-man (A)
Bag o Nails
Baga de Secrētis