railleur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French railleur.

Noun

railleur (plural railleurs)

1. A banterer; a jester; a mocker.
   • 1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, →OCLC, (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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.jœʁ/

Adjective

railleur (feminine railleuse, masculine plural railleurs, feminine plural railleuses)

1. mocking, scoffing

Noun

railleur m (plural railleurs, feminine railleuse)

1. mocker, scoffer

Further reading

• “railleur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.