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==Name== The nomenclature varies by country. In most anglophone countries, it is known as a ''raspberry'', which is attested from at least 1890,<ref>{{OED|raspberry}}</ref> and which in the United States had been shortened to ''[[wikt:razz|razz]]'' by 1919.<ref>{{OED|razz}}</ref> The term originates in [[rhyming slang]], where "raspberry tart" means "[[wikt:fart|fart]]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Holder |first=Robert W |date= |title=Dictionary of Euphemisms |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_tSNa4kBx2IC&pg=PA318 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=318 |isbn=978-0199235179 }}</ref> In the United States it has also been called a ''Bronx cheer'' since at least the early 1920s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/457777070|title=All Chicago backs up its footballers|last=Runyon|first=Damon|date=19 Oct 1921|work=San Francisco Examiner|access-date=18 Jun 2019|agency=Universal Syndicate|page=19|quote=....the East will grin and give Western football the jolly old Bronx cheer.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/39276030|title=Wills looks like boob in Johnson bout|last=Farrell|first=Henry L.|date=30 Nov 1922|work=San Antonio Evening News|access-date=18 Jun 2019|agency=United Press|page=8|quote=While the crowd was giving vent to the 'Bronx cheer' and hurling garlands of raspberries from the gallery....}}</ref>
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