Raillery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Raillery \Rail"ler*y\ (r[a^]l"l[~e]r*[y^] or r[=a]l"-; 277), n.
     [F. raillerie, fr. railler. See {Rail} to scoff.]
     Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language;
     satirical merriment.
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           Let raillery be without malice or heat.  --B. Jonson.
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           Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of
           them is sufficient to turn them into raillery.
                                                    --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  raillery
       n : light teasing repartee [syn: {banter}, {give-and-take}, {backchat}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
     vituperation