Blowing a raspberry


A raspberry or razz, also known as a Bronx cheer, is a mouth noise similar to a fart that is used to signify derision. It is also used as a voice exercise for singers and actors, where it may be called a raspberry trill or tongue trill. It is made by placing the tongue between the lips and blowing, so that it trills against the lower lip, and as a catcall in public arenas is sometimes made into the palm or back of the hand to amplify the volume. In Russia it is commonly accompanied by rolling theeyes.
Blowing a raspberry is common to many countries around the world, including European and European-settled countries and Iran. In Anglophone countries, it is associated with catcalling opposing sports teams, and with children. It is not used in any human language as a building block of words, apart from jocular exceptions such as the name of the character. However, the vaguely similar bilabial trill is a regular consonant sound in a fewdozen languages scattered around the world.
Spike Jones and His City Slickers used a "birdaphone" to create this sound on their recording of "DerFuehrer's Face", repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: "We'll Heil! Heil! Right in DerFuehrer's Face!"
In the terminology of phonetics, the raspberry has been described as a labiolingual trill, transcribed or in the International Phonetic Alphabet; and as a buccal interdental trill, transcribed in the Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet. The song "" on the 1999album uses a voiced linguolabial trill to replace "br" in a number of German words.

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The nomenclature varies by country. In most Anglophone countries, it is known as a raspberry, which is attested from, and which in the UnitedStates had been shortened to razz by1919. The term originates in rhyming slang, where "raspberrytart" means "fart". In the UnitedStates it has also been called a Bronx cheer since at least the early1920s.
In Italian it is known by the Neapolitan word ; in Spanish as or.
There is no particular word for it in Russian. There is also no direct equivalent in Korean.