raillery
/ˈreɪləri
/noun [mass noun]
Good-humoured teasing: she was greeted with raillery from her fellow workers...
- There was laughter and raillery as he came aboard dripping, but Armand allowed the incident to be treated as a joke.
- Apparently, it therefore equates to humorous ridicule in the general sense, or good-honoured raillery.
- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Synonyms
teasing, good-humoured mockery, chaff, banter, ragging, badinage, japing
informal leg-pulling, ribbing, joshing, kidding, kidology
North American informal josh
rare persiflage
Origin
Mid 17th century: from French raillerie, from railler 'to rail' (see rail2).
Rhymes
- worthily
- worthiness
- Worthing
- worthless
- worthlessly
- worthlessness
- worth one's salt
- worth one's while (or worth while)
- worthwhile
- worthwhileness
- worth while (or worth one's while)
- worthy
- -worthy
- wot
- Wotan
- wotcha
- wotcher
- Wouk, Herman
- would
- would-be
- would not touch someone/thing with a bargepole
- wouldn't
- wouldn't be seen (or caught) dead
- wouldn't hurt (or harm) a fly
- wouldn't say boo to a goose