railleryn.

Brit.

/ˈreɪləri/, U.S.

/ˈreɪləri/

Forms: 1600s raillarie, 1600s–1800s railery, 1600s– raillery.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French raillerie.

Etymology: < French raillerie (a1495 in Middle French) < railler (see rail v.⁵) + -erie -ery suffix. Compare rallery n.From the second half of the 18th cent. (1773 in Kenrick, or earlier) to the mid 20th cent., a pronunciation with a short monophthong in the first syllable is attested (i.e. /ˈrælərɪ/), so that in effect the spelling raillery corresponds to the variant rallery n. in the spoken language. This pronunciation was apparently for a time the predominant one, although pronunciation with a diphthong is also attested in the same period (e.g. in Buchanan (1766)). N.E.D. (1903) records the monophthongal pronunciation as by then chiefly U.S. English; Webster last records it (as a less common variant) in 1954.

a. Good-humoured ridicule or banter, often disguising a serious purpose; teasing, mockery.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun]

mirth1560

dicacity1592

jest1597

pleasantry1602

raillery1642

rallery1652

badinage1658

banter1660

disport1667

badinerie1712

rig1725

bantery1739

jokery1740

persiflage1757

quizzery1809

quiz1819

chaff1841

borak1845

barrackc1890

mickey-take1968

smack talk1989

bants2008

1642 J. Suckling Discontented Colonell i. i. sig. B3/^v Raylery apart Granivert, What accommodation shall we find here?

1656 A. Cowley Misc. Pref., in Poems I am not ignorant, that by saying this of others, I expose my self to some Raillery.

?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 143 He was much addicted to drollery or raillery.

1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned iii. iv. 320 Raillery may goe about to shame him out of his course.

1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. I. ii. ii. 263 The poor honest People, who were in Railery called Whiggs, from a Kind of Milk they were forced to drink in their Wandrings and Straits.

1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. xi. 320 The raillery is carried to the very verge of railing, some will say ribaldry.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxiii. 298 Not disturbed by the mess-room raillery of the Campaigner.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxi. 127 The countryman's Ribald raillery.

1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday v. 96 The men greeted him with good-humoured raillery as if they had always known him.

1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils xxxiv. 354 One eyebrow lifted in humorous raillery, but his mouth did not quite smile.

1964 Educ. Theatre Jrnl. 16 191/2 He is most at home in the satiric pamphlet, in its world of..lighthearted raillery and mordant abuse.

2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. (Culture section) 21 Though the language is vigorous, the elaborate Irish insults are intriguing, there are times when the endless raillery could become tedious.

b. An instance of this: a satirical, teasing, or mocking remark.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun] > piece or instance of

jest1548

rallery1645

raillery1653

rally1659

banter1679

quiz1795

josh1878

1653 R. Boyle Let. 27 Sept. in Corr. (2001) I. 149 Though your late Contempt of Love & Women & the Railleries with which you threatened mee, in case I did what I may now doe only to Imitate You; give me both Cause & Rise enough to punish you.

1668 J. Glanvill Blow at Mod. Sadducism 146 Fancy may be permitted its plaisance, and in-offensive raileries.

1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 1. ⁋1 There is a shocking familiarity both in his railleries and civilities.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. Notes p. xxii/1 It seems probable that the Alexandrians had irritated the tyrant by their railleries, and perhaps by their tumults.

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. ii. 12 All his purposed railleries deserted him.

1872 M. D. Landon Saratoga in 1901 19 John has borne their railleries in good part—always good-natured, always ready with a joke.

1927 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 22 274/2 Those jovial Gothic craftsmen who..covered the margins of Bibles and prayer books with satirical drawings and railleries.

2000 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 9 Nov. 10 Mr Mandelson laughed loyally at Mr Blair's railleries at the expense of the Tories in general and Mr Hague especially.

2. Abuse, invective; unpleasant or unkind criticism; taunting.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun]

balec1220

ordurec1390

revile1439

brawlingc1440

railing1466

opprobry?a1475

revilingc1475

vituperation1481

vituper1484

vitupery1489

convicy1526

abusion?1530

blasphemation1533

pelta1540

oblatration?1552

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abuse1559

inveighing1568

invection1590

revilement1590

invective1602

opprobration1623

invecture1633

thunder and lightning1638

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rattlinga1677

blackguarding1742

pillory1770

slang1805

slangwhanging1809

bullyragging1820

slanging1856

bespattering1862

bespatterment1870

bad-mouthing1939

bad mouth1947

slagging1956

flak1968

verbal1970

handbagging1987

pelters1992

1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 897 This memorandum was due to those worthies, who,..in despight of calumny and raillery, have..deserv'd as great names..as they, who have adorn'd the best records of foregoing ages.

1672 G. Thomson Let. to H. Stubbe 1 Your raillery and abusive language against those whose actions deserve not the least opprobrious speech from you.

1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 180 He fell into a great Passion, and began to call Names..He continu'd his Raillery.

1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 193 The very stile, w^ch is nothing but Raillery and Billingsgate.

1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. p. liii But we rarely find, that the severest Raillery, or most poinant Satyr, and personal Acrimony, have any other Tendency, than to make Men in Authority the more obstinate and pertinacious in their Misconduct.

1810 M. Brunton Self-control III. xxviii. 68 Her eyes still bore traces of the tears she had been shedding, and, in dread of the merciless raillery of her aunt, she retired to her own room.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxiii. 197 He kept back his strong impulse to proceed to immediate violence, and broke out into bitter raillery.

1899 E. Gosse Life J. Donne I. 44 The poem closes with an outburst of splenetic raillery.

1949 H. Pearson Dickens xiii. 202 He followed them for a mile on the opposite side of the road, being subjected all the way to much coarse raillery by the gang.

1988 M. Brodsky X in Paris 22 It had finally dawned on her that such raillery, such savage mockery, was in fact a fixative, a straitjacket.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	raillery
释义	railleryn. Brit. /ˈreɪləri/, U.S. /ˈreɪləri/ Forms: 1600s raillarie, 1600s–1800s railery, 1600s– raillery. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French raillerie. Etymology: < French raillerie (a1495 in Middle French) < railler (see rail v.⁵) + -erie -ery suffix. Compare rallery n.From the second half of the 18th cent. (1773 in Kenrick, or earlier) to the mid 20th cent., a pronunciation with a short monophthong in the first syllable is attested (i.e. /ˈrælərɪ/), so that in effect the spelling raillery corresponds to the variant rallery n. in the spoken language. This pronunciation was apparently for a time the predominant one, although pronunciation with a diphthong is also attested in the same period (e.g. in Buchanan (1766)). N.E.D. (1903) records the monophthongal pronunciation as by then chiefly U.S. English; Webster last records it (as a less common variant) in 1954. 1. a. Good-humoured ridicule or banter, often disguising a serious purpose; teasing, mockery. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun] mirth1560 dicacity1592 jest1597 pleasantry1602 raillery1642 rallery1652 badinage1658 banter1660 disport1667 badinerie1712 rig1725 bantery1739 jokery1740 persiflage1757 quizzery1809 quiz1819 chaff1841 borak1845 barrackc1890 mickey-take1968 smack talk1989 bants2008 1642 J. Suckling Discontented Colonell i. i. sig. B3/^v Raylery apart Granivert, What accommodation shall we find here? 1656 A. Cowley Misc. Pref., in Poems I am not ignorant, that by saying this of others, I expose my self to some Raillery. ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 143 He was much addicted to drollery or raillery. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned iii. iv. 320 Raillery may goe about to shame him out of his course. 1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. I. ii. ii. 263 The poor honest People, who were in Railery called Whiggs, from a Kind of Milk they were forced to drink in their Wandrings and Straits. 1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. xi. 320 The raillery is carried to the very verge of railing, some will say ribaldry. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxiii. 298 Not disturbed by the mess-room raillery of the Campaigner. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxi. 127 The countryman's Ribald raillery. 1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday v. 96 The men greeted him with good-humoured raillery as if they had always known him. 1951 L. P. Hartley My Fellow Devils xxxiv. 354 One eyebrow lifted in humorous raillery, but his mouth did not quite smile. 1964 Educ. Theatre Jrnl. 16 191/2 He is most at home in the satiric pamphlet, in its world of..lighthearted raillery and mordant abuse. 2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. (Culture section) 21 Though the language is vigorous, the elaborate Irish insults are intriguing, there are times when the endless raillery could become tedious. b. An instance of this: a satirical, teasing, or mocking remark. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > banter or good-humoured ridicule > [noun] > piece or instance of jest1548 rallery1645 raillery1653 rally1659 banter1679 quiz1795 josh1878 1653 R. Boyle Let. 27 Sept. in Corr. (2001) I. 149 Though your late Contempt of Love & Women & the Railleries with which you threatened mee, in case I did what I may now doe only to Imitate You; give me both Cause & Rise enough to punish you. 1668 J. Glanvill Blow at Mod. Sadducism 146 Fancy may be permitted its plaisance, and in-offensive raileries. 1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 1. ⁋1 There is a shocking familiarity both in his railleries and civilities. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. Notes p. xxii/1 It seems probable that the Alexandrians had irritated the tyrant by their railleries, and perhaps by their tumults. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. ii. 12 All his purposed railleries deserted him. 1872 M. D. Landon Saratoga in 1901 19 John has borne their railleries in good part—always good-natured, always ready with a joke. 1927 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 22 274/2 Those jovial Gothic craftsmen who..covered the margins of Bibles and prayer books with satirical drawings and railleries. 2000 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 9 Nov. 10 Mr Mandelson laughed loyally at Mr Blair's railleries at the expense of the Tories in general and Mr Hague especially. 2. Abuse, invective; unpleasant or unkind criticism; taunting. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] balec1220 ordurec1390 revile1439 brawlingc1440 railing1466 opprobry?a1475 revilingc1475 vituperation1481 vituper1484 vitupery1489 convicy1526 abusion?1530 blasphemation1533 pelta1540 oblatration?1552 words of mischief1555 abuse1559 inveighing1568 invection1590 revilement1590 invective1602 opprobration1623 invecture1633 thunder and lightning1638 raillery1669 rattlinga1677 blackguarding1742 pillory1770 slang1805 slangwhanging1809 bullyragging1820 slanging1856 bespattering1862 bespatterment1870 bad-mouthing1939 bad mouth1947 slagging1956 flak1968 verbal1970 handbagging1987 pelters1992 1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 897 This memorandum was due to those worthies, who,..in despight of calumny and raillery, have..deserv'd as great names..as they, who have adorn'd the best records of foregoing ages. 1672 G. Thomson Let. to H. Stubbe 1 Your raillery and abusive language against those whose actions deserve not the least opprobrious speech from you. 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 180 He fell into a great Passion, and began to call Names..He continu'd his Raillery. 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 193 The very stile, w^ch is nothing but Raillery and Billingsgate. 1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. p. liii But we rarely find, that the severest Raillery, or most poinant Satyr, and personal Acrimony, have any other Tendency, than to make Men in Authority the more obstinate and pertinacious in their Misconduct. 1810 M. Brunton Self-control III. xxviii. 68 Her eyes still bore traces of the tears she had been shedding, and, in dread of the merciless raillery of her aunt, she retired to her own room. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxiii. 197 He kept back his strong impulse to proceed to immediate violence, and broke out into bitter raillery. 1899 E. Gosse Life J. Donne I. 44 The poem closes with an outburst of splenetic raillery. 1949 H. Pearson Dickens xiii. 202 He followed them for a mile on the opposite side of the road, being subjected all the way to much coarse raillery by the gang. 1988 M. Brodsky X in Paris 22 It had finally dawned on her that such raillery, such savage mockery, was in fact a fixative, a straitjacket. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1642
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