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 . 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 exceptions such as the name of the character . However, the vaguely similar bilabial trill (essentially blowing a raspberry with one's lips) 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 (pulmonic) labiolingual trill, transcribed or (depending on voicing) in the International Phonetic Alphabet; and as a buccal interdental trill, transcribed in the Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet (the suggests that may also be used alone as an abbreviation if a speaker frequently uses the sound). The song "" (the actual title is a glyph) on the 1999album uses a voiced linguolabial trill to replace "br" in a number of German words (e.g. for ).

Name

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 ' 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.