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raillery|ˈreɪlərɪ|
Also 7 railery.
[a. F. raillerie, f. railler to rally: cf. rallery, a form which represents the older pron. (ˈrælərɪ), given by Sheridan, Walker, Smart, etc., and still used by some (esp. U.S.) speakers.]
1. Good-humoured ridicule, banter.
1653R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 245 The word Raillery you return'd me for interpretation..is now grown here so common with the better sort, as there are few of the meaner that are not able to construe it. 1656Cowley Misc. Pref., I am not ignorant, that by saying this of others, I expose my self to some Raillery. 1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope II. xi. 257 The raillery is carried to the very verge of railing, some will say ribaldry. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vii. x, A company in which you have been galled by the raillery of some wag by profession. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxi. 127 The countryman's Ribald raillery.
b. With a and pl.: An instance of this.
1654Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (Camden) II. 100 He sayes Sir E. H. found fault with the meat and such like railleries. 1683D. A. Art Converse 100 An Innocent Railery is their greatest delight. 1710Addison Whig-Exam. No. 1 ⁋1 There is a shocking familiarity both in his railleries and civilities. 1829Lytton Devereux i. ii, All his purposed railleries deserted him.
†2. Railing, reviling. Obs. rare.
1709Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 180 He fell into a great Passion, and began to call Names..He continu'd his Raillery. Ibid. 193 The very stile, wch is nothing but Raillery and Billingsgate. |