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Blowing a raspberry

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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
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While the crowd was giving vent to the 'Bronx cheer' and hurling garlands of raspberries from the gallery....
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that may signify derision, real or feigned. It is made by placing the tongue between the lips and blowing.
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Phonetics: A Critical Analysis of Phonetic Theory and a Technique for the Practical Description of Sounds
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and His City Slickers used a "birdaphone" to create this sound on their recording of "
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The nomenclature varies by country. In most anglophone countries, it is known as a
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with: "We'll Heil! (Bronx cheer) Heil! (Bronx cheer) Right in Der Fuehrer's Face!"
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Pike called it a "voiceless exolabio-lingual trill", with the
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by 1919. In the United States it has also been called a
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Index

Blows a raspberry
Bronx Cheer (Law & Order)
Bronx
flatulence
Joe Btfsplk
bilabial trill
Spike Jones
Der Fuehrer's Face
Adolf Hitler
phonetics
voiceless
linguolabial
trill
International Phonetic Alphabet
buccal
Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet
razz
Golden Raspberry Awards
Linguistic universal
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town
Flatulence humor
"Scorn and disdain: Spike Jones giffs Hitler der old birdaphone, 1942"
New York Daily News
the original
"Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #5"
tongue
Pike, Kenneth L.
Ball, Martin J.
doi
10.1017/S0025100317000147

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