Blowing a raspberry

A raspberry (when used with the tongue) is not used in any human language as a building block of words, apart from jocular exceptions such as the name of the comic-book character Joe Btfsplk.

However, the vaguely similar bilabial trill (essentially blowing a raspberry with one's lips) is a regular consonant sound in a few dozen languages scattered around the world.

Spike Jones and His City Slickers used a "birdaphone" to create this sound on their recording of "Der Fuehrer's Face", repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: "We'll Heil!

In most anglophone countries, it is known as a raspberry, which is attested from at least 1890,[5] and which in the United States had been shortened to razz by 1919.

[6] The term orignates in rhyming slang, where "raspberry tart" means "fart".

A man blowing a raspberry