raillery

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RA'ILLERY, noun 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
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