raillery
/ˈɹeɪləɹi/
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obsolete/ˈɹæləɹi/
raillery noun: good-natured banter, jest, or ridicule.
Noun
raillery (countable and uncountable, plural railleries)
- Good-natured banter, jest, or ridicule.
- Flip [Lady Flippant]. I love, of my life men ſhould deal freely vvith me; there are ſo fevv men vvill deal freely with one— / Sir Sim[on Addlepot]. Are you not a Fireſhip? a Punk, Madam? / Flip. VVell, Sir, I love Raillery. / Sir Sim. Faith and troth I do not railly, I deal freely.1671 March (first performance), [William] Wycherley, Love in a Wood, or, St James’s Park. A Comedy, […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1672, →OCLC, Act II, page 22
- It is so indeed—Charles—they give into all the substantial Luxuries of the Table—and abstain from nothing but wine and wit—Oh, certainly society suffers by it intolerably—for now instead of the social spirit of Raillery that used to mantle over a glass of bright Burgundy their conversation is...1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, act III, scene iii
raillery meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
raillery in Tamil
- raillery, jest, wit, drollery
- நையாண்டி naiyāṇṭi
raillery in Urdu
- ہذل, لطیفہ, مزاح, پھکڑ
raillery in Bengali
- পরিহাস
raillery in Malayalam
- mockery, teasing, chaff
- കളിയാക്കൽ, തമാശ, പരിഹാസം, പരീഹാസം, പരിഹസിക്കൽ, കിഴിപ്പ്
More languagesFewer languages
- raillery in Kannada
- ಗೇಲಿಮಾತು, ಗೇಲಿನುಡಿ
Examples of raillery in a sentence
- Excitement instantly seized the whole party: a running fire of raillery and jests was proceeding when Sam returned.1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XVIII, in Jane Eyre. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III)...
- 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.1892–1893, Cao Xueqin, translated by H. Bencraft Joly, Hung Lou Mêng; or, The Dream of the Red Chamber; a Chinese Novel, Hong Kong: Kelly &...
Forms of raillery
| plural | railleries |
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Origin of raillery
Borrowed from French raillerie.
Questions about raillery
- What does raillery mean?
- Raillery means good-natured banter, jest, or ridicule.
- What is raillery in Tamil?
- Raillery in Tamil is நையாண்டி (naiyāṇṭi). See Raillery meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use raillery in a sentence?
- Excitement instantly seized the whole party: a running fire of raillery and jests was proceeding when Sam returned.
- What part of speech is raillery?
- Raillery is a noun.
- How do you pronounce raillery?
- Raillery is pronounced /ˈɹeɪləɹi/.
- What is the plural of raillery?
- The plural of raillery is railleries.
Words near raillery in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: raillery (page history and authors); நையாண்டி (Tamil) (page history and authors); raillery (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); raillery (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); raillery (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); raillery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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