raillery
raillery · railleries
Good-natured banter, jest, or ridiculeGood-natured banter, jest, or ridicule.
/ˈɹeɪləɹi/
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)Good-natured banter, jest, or ridicule.
More definitions
- light teasing repartee
Origin
Borrowed from French raillerie.Borrowed from French raillerie.
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Forms
plural: railleries| Singular | raillery |
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Synonyms
3 synonymsClose in meaning
- light teasing repartee:bantergive-and-takebackchat
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.