What's wrong with a bit of banter mate?

Spoiler:

If you don't want it I may have it myself.

Oh and in case anyone is thinking that came form my unfeasibly humongous vocabulary it didn't I was spell checking something else 'n I never knew of that word so I looked it up how freaky is that?

I like banter

irrepressible wrote:

I like banter

It's got pedigree as well as European flair...


per·si·flage

noun \ˈpər-si-ˌfläzh, ˈper-\Definition of PERSIFLAGE




: frivolous bantering talk : light raillery
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Examples of PERSIFLAGE

1. <their tongue-in-cheek persiflage is sometimes mistaken for an exchange of insults by people who don't know them> Humm some one must have visited the Sanctum me thinks.
   

Origin of PERSIFLAGE


French, from persifler to banter, from per- thoroughly + siffler to whistle, hiss, boo, ultimately from Latin sibilare
First Known Use: 1757