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| [[File:Blowing a raspberry.ogv|thumb|250px|A man blowing a raspberry]]
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| '''Blowing a raspberry''', '''strawberry''' or making a '''Bronx cheer''', is to make a noise similar to [[flatulence]] that may signify derision, real or feigned. It may also be used in childhood [[phoneme|phonemic]] play, either solely by the child, or by adults towards a child to encourage imitation to the delight of both parties. It is made by placing the tongue between the lips, or alternately placing the lips against any area of skin, and blowing. When performed against the skin of another person, it is often a form of [[tickling game|tickling]]. In the terminology of [[phonetics]], the former sound has been described as a [[voiceless]] [[Linguolabial consonant|linguolabial]] [[trill consonant|trill]], {{IPA|[r̼̊]}},<ref>Pike called it a "voiceless exolabio-lingual trill", with the tongue vibrating against a protruding lower lip. {{cite book|last=Pike|first=Kenneth L.|author-link=Kenneth Pike|year=1943|title= Phonetics: A Critical Analysis of Phonetic Theory and a Technique for the Practical Description of Sounds|location=Ann Arbor|publisher=University of Michigan Press}}</ref> and as a [[buccal speech|buccal]] interdental trill, {{IPA|[ↀ͡r̪͆]}}.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ball |first1=Martin J. |authorlink1=Martin J. Ball |last2=Howard |first2=Sara J. |last3=Miller |first3=Kirk |year=2018 |title=Revisions to the extIPA chart |journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=155–164 |doi=10.1017/S0025100317000147 |ref=harv }}</ref>
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| A raspberry is never used in human language phonemically (that is, as a building block of words), but it is widely used across human cultures.
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| ==Etymology==
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| The nomenclature varies by country. In most anglophone countries, it is known as a '''raspberry''', which is attested from at least 1890,<ref>{{OED|raspberry}}</ref> and which in the United States came to be abbreviated as '''razz''' by 1919.<ref>{{OED|razz}}</ref> In the United States it has also been called a '''Bronx cheer''' since at least the early 1920s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/457777070|title=All Chicago backs up its footballers|last=Runyon|first=Damon|date=19 Oct 1921|work=San Francisco Examiner|access-date=18 Jun 2019|agency=Universal Syndicate|page=19|quote=....the East will grin and give Western football the jolly old Bronx cheer.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/39276030|title=Wills looks like boob in Johnson bout|last=Farrell|first=Henry L.|date=30 Nov 1922|work=San Antonio Evening News|access-date=18 Jun 2019|publisher=|agency=United Press|page=8|quote=While the crowd was giving vent to the 'Bronx cheer' and hurling garlands of raspberries from the gallery....}}</ref>
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| Blowing a "raspberry" derives from the [[Cockney rhyming slang]] "raspberry tart" for "fart".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/298362.html |title=Raspberry tart |publisher=Phrases.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-07-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Bryson | first=Bill |author-link=Bill Bryson| title=The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way | url=https://archive.org/details/mothertongueengl00brys | url-access=registration | publisher=[[Avon Books]] | year=1990 | edition=Trade printing, September 1991 | isbn=0-380-71543-0 | page=[https://archive.org/details/mothertongueengl00brys/page/238 238]}}</ref> Rhyming slang was particularly used in British comedy to refer to things that would be unacceptable to a polite audience. | |
| "Raspberry" was also given the pronunciation spelling "razzberry" in the US, of which "razz" is an abbreviation.
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Bilabial trill]]
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| * [[Joe Btfsplk]]
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| * [[Golden Raspberry Awards]], which are named after the term
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| * [[Linguistic universal]]
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| * ''[[The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town]]''
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| * [[Flatulence humor]]
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| ==References==
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Blowing A Raspberry}}
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| [[Category:Flatulence]]
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| [[Category:Onomatopoeia]]
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| [[Category:Sounds by type]]
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| {{#related:Rhyming slang}}
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