English to Shona Meaning of raillery - raillery

Raillery :

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Definitions of raillery in English

Noun(1) light teasing repartee

Examples of raillery in English

(1) Apparently, it therefore equates to humorous ridicule in the general sense, or good-honoured raillery .(2) she was greeted with raillery from her fellow workers(3) In all seriousness, and raillery aside, it was and is inspiring to know that a site like this can be so successful and have such a loyal following.(4) How would one teach that poem to a future generation that had come to regard the word as a piece of raillery ?(5) Won't this type of biting raillery create enemies for you when it is published?(6) 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.(7) There was laughter and raillery as he came aboard dripping, but Armand allowed the incident to be treated as a joke.(8) The raillery of the two main characters lacks any real emotional context.(9) Passions ran high as raillery at the religious orders, and attacks on collaborationist elites found expression in personal correspondence and in the press.(10) New Australians were treated with wary raillery .(11) And so commences the raillery , at the expense of the grousing giant.(12) 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.

(1) rail ::

njanji

(2) iron railing ::

simbi fenzi

(3) stair railing ::

kukwira fenzi

Synonyms

Noun

2. mockery ::

rinosekesa

3. chaff ::

hundi

5. banter ::

banter

6. badinage ::

badinage

7. leg-pulling ::

gumbo-kudhonza

9. ribbing ::

ribbing

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