📚 Raillery, noun. 🔉 /ˈreɪləri/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): Good-humoured teasing. ❗️ Examples: 1. She was greeted with raillery from her fellow workers. 2. There was laughter and raillery as he came aboard dripping, but Armand allowed the incident to be treated as a joke. 3. Apparently, it therefore equates to humorous ridicule in the general sense, or good-honoured raillery. 4. Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. 5. The talking of the people was a sustained murmur from which now and then a few intelligible words escaped: a greeting, some bit of raillery, a reprimand to a horse, an oath. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic