raillery
noun/ˈreɪləri/
/ˈreɪləri/
[uncountable] (formal)- friendly joking about a personWord 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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