Today's Word "raillery"
Good-humored banter
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raillery \RAY-luh-ree\ (noun) - 1 : Good-humored teasing or banter. 2 : An instance of such good-humored teasing; a jest.
"But as matter for ridicule is always ready to hand, and as most men are only too fond of fun and raillery, even buffoons are called witty and pass for clever fellows; though it is clear from what has been said that wit is different, and widely different, from buffoonery." -- Aristotle, 'The Nicomachean Ethics'
Raillery is taken from the French raillerie, or from the Old French railler, meaning "to tease, to mock."
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