badinage vs battle

badinage

noun
  • Playful raillery; banter. 

verb
  • To engage in badinage or playful banter. 

battle

noun
  • battle buddy 

  • A contest, a struggle. 

  • A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement. 

adj
  • Improving; nutritious; fattening. 

  • Fertile; fruitful. 

verb
  • To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful. 

  • To feed or nourish (someone or something). 

  • To join in battle; to contend in fight 

  • To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with. 

How often have the words badinage and battle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )