Admin Post: Word of the Day .... razz raz verb Slang. to deride; make fun of; tease. noun raspberry; any sign or expression of dislike or derision. They razz each other over every play, throw stuff across the room, and laugh deep belly laughs over cutting remarks. -- Elsa Kok Colopy , 99 Ways to Fight Worry and Stress , 2009 He wouldnt have razzed just me. He would have razzed my Abstract Expressionist pals, too, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko and Terry Kitchen and so on … -- Kurt Vonnegut , Bluebeard: A Novel , 1987 Razz is a shortened variant of raspberry , a colloquialism for a rude sound used to express mockery or contempt. It entered English in the early to mid-1900s.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 00:20:18 +0000