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

English

Noun

raillery

1. good-natured ridicule, jest or banter

Quotations

Jane Eyre: by Charlotte Brontë - 1850

Excitement instantly seized the whole party: a running fire of raillery and jests was proceeding when Sam returned.

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