persiflage
[noun]
Synonyms: banter, backchat, badinage, cross talk, repartee, snip-snap

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persiflage noun

1. comments and jokes in which people laugh at each other in a fairly unkind but not serious way
   Word Originmid 18th cent.: from French persifler ‘to banter’, based on siffler ‘to whistle’.

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