good-natured scoffing

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• scoff — scoff, jeer, gibe, fleer, gird, sneer, flout can all mean to show one s scorn or contempt in derision or mockery. Scoff stresses insolence, irreverence, lack of respect, or incredulity as the motives for one s derision or mockery {it is an easy… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• List of 19th century English language idioms — This is a list of idioms that were recognizable to literate people in the late 19th century, and have become unfamiliar since. As the article list of idioms in the English language notes, a list of idioms can be useful, since the meaning of an… …   Wikipedia

• fooling — Synonyms and related words: badinage, bamboozlement, banter, bantering, befooling, bluffing, booing, buffoonery, calculated deception, catcalling, chaff, chaffing, circumvention, clownishness, conning, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• kidding — Synonyms and related words: badinage, bamboozlement, banter, bantering, befooling, bluffing, booing, calculated deception, catcalling, chaff, chaffing, circumvention, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• raillery — Synonyms and related words: badinage, banter, booing, catcalling, chaff, chaffing, derision, exchange, fleering, flippancy, fooling, fooling around, frivolity, give and take, good natured banter, grinning, harmless teasing, hissing, hooting,… …   Moby Thesaurus