raillery

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rail=ler=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

raillery, n. [F. raillerie, fr. railler. See Rail to scoff.].

 Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.  [1913 Webster]
"Let raillery be without malice or heat."  [1913 Webster]
"Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

raillery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 good-humoured ridicule; rallying.
2 an instance of this.

Etymology

F raillerie (as RAIL(2))

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

raillery

Ridicule

N ridicule, derision, sardonic smile, sardonic grin, irrision, scoffing, mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage, quizzing, asteism, squib, satire, skit, quip, quib, grin, parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie, farce, caricature, buffoonery, practical joke, horseplay, scorn, contempt, derisory, derisive, mock, mocking, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic, scurrilous, in ridicule.