railleur
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French railleur.
Noun
railleur (plural railleurs)
- A banterer; a jester; a mocker.
- 1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], OCLC 912643989; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, OCLC 7479409, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page 14:
- Sir, Maſter Sparkiſh has often told me, that his Acquaintance were all Wits and Railleurs, and now I find it.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for railleur in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Adjective
railleur (feminine railleuse, masculine plural railleurs, feminine plural railleuses)
- mocking, scoffing
Noun
railleur m (plural railleurs, feminine railleuse)
- mocker, scoffer
Further reading
- “railleur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.