badinage vs maneuver

badinage

verb
  • To engage in badinage or playful banter. 

noun
  • Playful raillery; banter. 

maneuver

verb
  • To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme 

  • To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position. 

  • To guide, steer, manage purposefully 

noun
  • A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle. 

  • The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units. 

  • A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments. 

  • A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity. 

  • Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem. 

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