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Good-humored banter
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raillery
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Word definitions for raillery in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. light teasing repartee [syn: banter , give-and-take , backchat ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Raillery \Rail"ler*y\ (r[a^]l"l[~e]r*[y^] or r[=a]l"-; 277), n. Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. --B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"good-humored ridicule," 1650s, from rail (v.) + -ery , or perhaps from French raillerie , from Middle French railler "to tease" (see rail (v.1)).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I got an affectionate send-off from my colleagues, along with much raillery and leg-pulling. ▪ She was greeted with raillery from her fellow workers, but Jason surprisingly wasn't around. ▪ The raillery with which he had spoken ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. good-natured ridicule, jest or banter
Usage examples of raillery.
Et aussi, je dois te le confesser, puisque je ne te cache rien, certaines railleries qui, adressees a de la Vigne, me parurent passer par-dessus la tete de celui-ci pour frapper sur moi.
But I will not undertake the task of distinguishing satire from irony, burlesque, caricature, lampoon, travesty, pasquinade, raillery, billingsgate, diatribe, invective, imitation, mimicry, parody, jokes, hoax, and spoof.
I have seen the House convulsed with raillery which, in other society, would infallibly settle the rallier to be a bore beyond all tolerance.
And though his income, as you know, was so small, he never ran in debt, and by an exact but open oeconomy, escaped all imputation of meanness: while by forbearing either to conceal, or repine at his limited fortune, he blunted even the raillery of the dissipated, by frankly and good humouredly meeting it half way.
Haverford was still knitting placidly, where the Chris Valentines were quarreling under pretense of raillery, where Toots Hayden was smoking a cigaret in a corner and smiling up at Graham, and where Natalie, exquisite and precise, was supervising the laying out of a bridge table.
It was obviously the work of Courtenay Youghal, and Comus, for a palpable purpose of his own, had wheedled him into foregoing for once the pride of authorship in a clever piece of political raillery, and letting his young friend stand sponsor instead.
Here again Johnson and Wilkes joined in extravagant sportive raillery upon the supposed poverty of Scotland, which Dr. Beattie and I did not think it worth our while to dispute.
The affair had sprung up out of a clear sky: there had been some raillery which Rensley took exception to, and Fanshawe had carried it too far.
Give me alms, if you please, but do not insult my poverty with railleries which would take away all the merit of your beneficence.