Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A raspberry sound; a Bronx cheer.
- transitive verb To deride, heckle, or tease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun poker A version of
seven card stud where the worstpoker hand wins (calledlowball ). - verb informal Tease playfully;
heckle . - verb informal Heckle by blowing a
raspberry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- verb harass with persistent criticism or carping
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I was just having fun the best way I knew how even if it meant being called a razz babe,lol!
BIENVENUÉ ABIDJAN princesa 2008
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I was just having fun the best way I knew how even if it meant being called a razz babe,lol!
Archive 2008-11-01 princesa 2008
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If one of us has an area of distress our fellow workers "razz" that person, allowing a lot of laughter to bubble off the distress.
A PRIMER ON UNLEARNING CLASSISM Maggie Jochild 2007
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But I can’t expect that kind of razz-a-ma-tazz from our modern-day deity.
Terrorism, a Bridge Collapse, and the Weather - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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I've called the set of all these functions or powers of the brain the "teleome" a name that emphasizes the unabashed teleology that's required to truly make sense of the brain, and is simultaneously designed to razz the "-ome" buzzwords like 'genome' and 'connectome'.
Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Artificial Brains: Not in This Century Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012
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January 5, 2009 6: 40 PM waffy, you are a razz girl.chei. and then she will be insulting me that i eat at bukas ...
Interview Thursday: 1st Person of the year - WAFFARIAN! 2009
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Sunburned, butt-slapping white men came out from the lake for salty corn chips and margaritas and to razz the fatso wives who were mostly reading fashion magazines.
Jesus-Man and the Bee Sting Meg Pokrass 2011
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This was the first TV episode from the writer, Margaret Dunlap, so they assembled Javier and three other writers to razz her about it and talk about the many Doctor Who references.
The Middleman: The Complete Series » DVDs Worth Watching 2009
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Sunburned, butt-slapping white men came out from the lake for salty corn chips and margaritas and to razz the fatso wives who were mostly reading fashion magazines.
Jesus-Man and the Bee Sting Meg Pokrass 2011
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I've called the set of all these functions or powers of the brain the "teleome" a name that emphasizes the unabashed teleology that's required to truly make sense of the brain, and is simultaneously designed to razz the "-ome" buzzwords like 'genome' and 'connectome'.
Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Artificial Brains: Not in This Century Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012
saracarl commented on the word razz
To razz -- to make fun of someone.
From "rasberry tart" which is cockney rhyming slang for "fart"
It comes from making a rasberry sound by blowing air through flapping lips -- or, in less refined circles, a farting noise.
Ben told me this last night, so I'm sure I should credit some blogger, but this was the only one I found.
September 12, 2007
bilby commented on the word razz
What people do to pterodactyl.
October 5, 2008