razz
verbEtymology Clipping of raspberry.
1
Informal To tease playfully; to heckle.
- No need to look like you're sat on a brush, man, we're only razzin' ya.2003 October 3, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, “On the Pull” (6:35 from the start), in Peep Show, season 1, episode 3, Channel 4:
2
Informal To heckle by blowing a raspberry.
3
Australia, Newfoundland, UK, Informal To drive a vehicle around aimlessly.
- Consider, for example, the word razz, used by younger speakers with the meaning 'riding around with friends in a car (or a snowmobile), with no particular goal'. This meaning is not generally familiar to older residents of the province, and is largely unknown in North America. A very similar meaning does, however, occur in Britain and Australia, as in the following British online posting: 81. We find about an exciting new craze that is seeing kids clad in leather from Leamington razzing around on motorbikes. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/motor/mini-moto-crazy.shtml).2010, Sandra Clarke, Newfoundland and Labrador English, page 151:
- Related terms
- razz someone's berries, razzed, on the razz