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Definition of raillery noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

raillery

noun

/ˈreɪləri/

/ˈreɪləri/

[uncountable] (formal)

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friendly joking about a person
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French raillerie, from railler ‘to rail’, from Provençal ralhar ‘to jest’, based on an alteration of Latin rugire ‘to bellow’.

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