(n.) Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.
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Raillery
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(n.) Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.
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(1) This tremendous passage is of course a great deal more than the comedian's parting: "Bless you, you've been a wonderful audience, look after each other, thank you, good night," though it has some of the same effect, a moment of still truth in the midst of the carnival of wit and raillery.
(2) But receiving a lot of "only half good-natured raillery about being from the bush", allied to a period of depression, contributed to his leaving university in 1960 without completing his degree, to hitchhike round Australia.