raillery

English

raillery (countable and uncountable, plural railleries)

Good-natured ridicule, jest or banter.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, chapter XVIII:
  Excitement instantly seized the whole party: a running fire of raillery and jests was proceeding when Sam returned.
- 1892–1893, Cao Xueqin; H. Bencraft Joly, transl., Hung Lou Mêng; or, The Dream of the Red Chamber; a Chinese Novel, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, OCLC 6171971:
  Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses.

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