blowing a raspberry

{{Short description|Act of making a noise like flatulence}}

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Blowing a raspberry, also known as giving a Bronx cheer, 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!"{{ 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}}{{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}}

In the terminology of phonetics, the raspberry has been described as a voiceless linguolabial trill, transcribed {{IPA|[r̼̊]}} in the International Phonetic Alphabet,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}} and as a buccal interdental trill, transcribed {{IPA|[ↀ͡r̪͆]}} in the Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet.{{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}}