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Light banter. If it had an adjective form, it might be "persiflagistic." What's the closest term in Standard English
Slang is ok too
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well, bantering, for one; jesting, joshing, chaffing (not common)..
but did you know the verb form is to persiflate and that someone who indulges in frivolous banter is a persifleur?
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> someone who indulges in frivolous banter is a persifleur?
I've always seen myself as a bit of a wallflower or even a shrinking violet, could a persifleur be the moniker that I have been searching for all these years?
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persifleur-de-lis: the silly lilly
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> someone who indulges in frivolous banter is a persifleur?
I've always seen myself as a bit of a wallflower or even a shrinking violet, could a persifleur be the moniker that I have been searching for all these years?
In your case, prolly persifleuse. 
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Tsu: No I didn't but I really like it
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persifleur-de-lis: the silly lilly
Not you too, Alex! 
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Batting the Harry Percy.
~Bertie Wooster
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Of course tsu is absolutely right about those synonyms--I knew that!
After looking it up
But I had heard it used in a pejorative sense, also used to mean insincere or deceitful raillery, and that was the sense for which I now realize I needed a synonym--Thanks all
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persiflagellation: to flay them with your wit .........bad puns are truly a scourge on this board
Last edited by Alex Williams; 02/28/2006 3:42 PM.
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.........bad puns are truly a scourge on this board
Certainly you have made a mistake. I've been a conscientious reader of and contributor to this board for over five years and I have never seen a bad pun. Some people question the very existence of such an item.
TEd
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> I have never seen a bad pun. Such a defect must be caused by the logorrhea in your own eye, TEd.  
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In your case, prolly persifleuse. - Why? since in French, appropriately, la fleur is feminine.
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I think that this was intended to "guild the lily" a little ;-)
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