motteggiare

Meaning

  1. (literary, rare, transitive) to tease; to needle
  2. (intransitive, literary, rare) to speak wittily; to quip
  3. (archaic, intransitive, literary, rare) to have a pleasant conversation

Hyphenated as
mot‧teg‧già‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mot.tedˈd͡ʒa.re/
Etymology

From motto + -eggiare.

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