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I want to know why it is called blowing raspberries, where does it derive from & why do we still call it that?
"Blowing raspberries" comes from the slang meaning of "raspberry", Daniel.
Dictionary.com says:
4. Slang. A derisive or contemptuous sound made by vibrating the extended tongue and the lips while exhaling.
Not sure why the raspberry got singled out for this indelicacy. [They don't deserve it.]
Dictionary.com proposes this explanation:
Obsolete raspis, raspberry + berry. Sense 4, possibly short for raspberry tart rhyming slang for fart.
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