Blowing a raspberry

2022-04-09T11:07:34Z

2804:F14:C060:8A01:F4F9:D73F:899A:4B3E: Undid revision 1081717672 by 2A00:23C8:6300:6501:A828:258:C94C:88D1 (talk): Reverted unconstructive edit/unexplained deletion.

{{Short description|Act of making a noise like flatulence}}
{{Redirect|Bronx cheer|the Law & Order episode|Bronx Cheer (Law & Order)}}
[[File:Blowing a raspberry.ogv|thumb|250px|A man blowing a raspberry]]
'''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]}} in the extIPA ([[Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet]]).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ball |first1=Martin J. |author-link1=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 |s2cid=151863976 }}</ref>

A raspberry (when used with the tongue) is never used in human language phonemically (that is, as a building block of words). However, the [[bilabial trill]] (essentially blowing a raspberry with one's lips) is a phoneme in some languages. Blowing a raspberry is widely used across human cultures.{{cn|date=January 2020}}

[[Spike Jones]] and His City Slickers used a "birdaphone" to create this sound on their recording of "[[Der Fuehrer's Face]]", repeatedly lambasting [[Adolf Hitler]] with: "We'll Heil! (Bronx cheer) Heil! (Bronx cheer) Right in Der Fuehrer's Face!"<ref>{{ cite web |first=David |last=Hinkley |title=Scorn and disdain: Spike Jones giffs Hitler der old birdaphone, 1942 |work=[[New York Daily News]] |date=March 3, 2004 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2004/03/03/2004-03-03_scorn_and_disdain_spike_jone.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408091714/https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2004/03/03/2004-03-03_scorn_and_disdain_spike_jone.html |archive-date=April 8, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1633240/m1/|title=Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #5|first=John|last=Gilliland|date=April 14, 1972|website=UNT Digital Library}}</ref>

==Etymology==
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|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>

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 |access-date=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>

==See also==
* [[Bilabial trill]]
* [[Joe Btfsplk]]
* [[Golden Raspberry Awards]], which are named after the term
* [[Linguistic universal]]
* ''[[The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town]]''
* [[Flatulence humor]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blowing A Raspberry}}
[[Category:Flatulence]]
[[Category:Onomatopoeia]]
[[Category:Gestures]]
[[Category:Articles containing video clips]]
[[Category:Sounds by type]]
[[Category:Metaphors referring to food and drink]]
{{#related:Rhyming slang}}

The Goon Show Depository - User contributions [en]

Blowing a raspberry