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Webster 1913 Edition

(răl′lẽr-y̆ or rāl′-; 277)

Noun.

[F.

raillerie

, fr.

railler

. See

to scoff.]

Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.

Let

raillery

be without malice or heat.

B. Jonson.

Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into

raillery

Addison.

, n.

Banter; jesting language; good humored pleasantry or slight satire; satirical merriment.

Let raillery be without malice or heat.

- Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery.

raillery ‎(plural railleries)

Good-natured ridicule, jest or banter.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, chapter XVIII:
  Excitement instantly seized the whole party: a running fire of raillery and jests was proceeding when Sam returned.
- 1892–1893, Cao Xueqin; H. Bencraft Joly, transl., Hung Lou Mêng; or, The Dream of the Red Chamber; a Chinese Novel, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, OCLC 6171971:
  Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses.