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Bronx cheer

Today it means: Synonym of raspberry (“a sound intended to resemble flatulence made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, used humorously or to express disdain or scorn”). Full definition →

First used 1920s

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The story

Believed to originate from the making of the sound during sporting and other events in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, New York, USA.

First known use, by meaning

from 1920s Synonym of raspberry (“a sound intended to resemble flatulence made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, used humorously or to express disdain or scorn”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.