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raillery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun raillery has 1 sense
- raillery(n = noun.communication) backchat, banter, give-and-take - light teasing repartee; Array is a kind of repartee
has particulars: badinage, persiflage
CIDE DICTIONARY
raillery, n. [F. raillerie, fr. railler. See Rail to scoff.].
Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. [1913 Webster]
"Let raillery be without malice or heat."
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"Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
raillery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 good-humoured ridicule; rallying.
2 an instance of this.
1 good-humoured ridicule; rallying.
2 an instance of this.
Etymology
F raillerie (as RAIL(2))
THESAURUS
raillery
badinage, banter, booing, catcalling, chaff, chaffing, derision, exchange, fleering, flippancy, fooling, fooling around, frivolity, give-and-take, good-natured banter, grinning, harmless teasing, hissing, hooting, invective, jape, jeering, jest, jesting, jive, joke, joking, josh, joshing, kidding, kidding around, leering, levity, mockery, panning, persiflage, pleasantry, ragging, rallying, razzing, repartee, ridicule, roasting, scoffing, smart-aleckiness, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, sport, taunting, teasing, twit, twitting, vituperationROGET THESAURUS
raillery
Ridicule
N ridicule, derision, sardonic smile, sardonic grin, irrision, scoffing, mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage, quizzing, asteism, squib, satire, skit, quip, quib, grin, parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie, farce, caricature, buffoonery, practical joke, horseplay, scorn, contempt, derisory, derisive, mock, mocking, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic, scurrilous, in ridicule.
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