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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Blowing Raspberries #145845 08/01/2005 5:00 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1 Guildford, Great Britain daniel stranger daniel stranger Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 1 Guildford, Great Britain I want to know why it is called blowing raspberries, where does it derive from & why do we still call it that? Surely there was another term for it? JJRN1814 JJRN1814 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Blowing Raspberries daniel 08/01/2005 5:00 PM Re: Blowing Raspberries plutarch 08/01/2005 5:07 PM Re: Blowing Raspberries Churl Pat 08/01/2005 5:10 PM Re: Blowing Raspberries Jackie 08/01/2005 5:12 PM blowing a raspberry tsuwm 08/01/2005 5:25 PM Re: blowing a raspberry plutarch 08/01/2005 5:31 PM Re: Blowing Raspberries of troy 08/01/2005 5:48 PM Re: Blowing Raspberries plutarch 08/01/2005 8:40 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,325 Members9,209 Most Online4,606 Sep 17th, 2025 Newest Members Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd, Tony Hood, Wood Delivery 9,209 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 28 A C Bowden 11 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,168 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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