raillery

raillery
    n 1: light teasing repartee [syn: {banter}, {raillery}, {give-
         and-take}, {backchat}]
    

Raillery \Rail"ler*y\ (r[a^]l"l[~e]r*[y^] or r[=a]l"-; 277), n.
   [F. raillerie, fr. railler. See {Rail} to scoff.]
   Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language;
   satirical merriment.
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         Let raillery be without malice or heat.  --B. Jonson.
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         Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of
         them is sufficient to turn them into raillery.
                                                  --Addison.
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57 Moby Thesaurus words for "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