Editing Blowing a raspberry

{{Short description|Act of making a noise like flatulence}}
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[[File:Blowing a raspberry.ogv|thumb|250px|A man blowing a raspberry]]
Blowing a raspberry is to make a noise similar to flatulence that may signify derision. It is made by placing the tongue between the lips and blowing.

A raspberry when used with the tongue is not used in any human language as a building block of words, apart from jocular exceptions such as the name of the comic-book character [[Joe Btfsplk]]. However, the vaguely similar [[bilabial trill]] (essentially blowing a raspberry with one's lips) is a regular consonant sound in a few dozen languages scattered around the world. 

[[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>

In the terminology of [[phonetics]], the raspberry has been described as a [[voiceless]] [[Linguolabial consonant|linguolabial]] [[trill consonant|trill]], transcribed {{IPA|[r̼̊]}} in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]],<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, transcribed {{IPA|[ↀ͡r̪͆]}} in the [[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>

==Name==
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 had been shortened to ''[[wikt:razz|razz]]'' by 1919.<ref>{{OED|razz}}</ref> The term originates in [[rhyming slang]], where "raspberry tart" means "[[wikt:fart|fart]]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Holder |first=Robert W |date= |title=Dictionary of Euphemisms |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_tSNa4kBx2IC&pg=PA318 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=318 |isbn=978-0199235179 }}</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>

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

==References==
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