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▪ I. razz, n. slang (orig. U.S.).|ræz|
[Short for razzberry.]
= raspberry 4.
a1919C. Briggs Oh Man!, She'll prob'ly give me the razz for being out late last night! 1920S. Lewis Main Street xxiii. 282 The Red Swede got the grand razz handed to him. 1921Collier's 15 Jan. 20/1 The mob gave him the razz. 1926N. V. Lindsay Going-to-the-Stars 52 Let us think of the Irish flute in the morn,..And forget our jazzes and our razzes and our hates. 1935Punch 27 Feb. 248/2, I wasn't asked parties; I got no rise..; the girls gave me the razz—and all for the reason I'd no badge to show. 1960E. W. Hildick Jim Starling & Colonel viii. 62 That band chap blew him the razz! 1961Punch 18 Jan. 129 What say, honey?—let's give this communal living the razz and just go off somewhere, the two of us. 1961Spectator 9 June 835/1 He selects one of them for punishment.., delivers a sonorous ‘razz’ and pretends to cane him. 1967J. D. R. McConnell Eton 61 Offenders may be summoned to the Library for a ‘razz’. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Apr. 534/5 Even the peppiest, most two-fisted and up-and-coming borough librarian would get the razz for buying it.
▪ II. razz, v. slang (orig. U.S.).|ræz|
[f. the n.]
trans. To hiss or deride; to make fun of (a person). Hence ˈrazzing vbl. n.
1921Collier's 19 Feb. 5/3 It [sc. a crowd]..will razz its local favorite with as much enthusiasm as it will the visitin' boxer at the first sign of foul fightin'. 1921Sat. Even. Post 18 June 65/2 I'd of rather took fifty socks on the jaw than the razzing the crowd give Bat. 1924P. Marks Plastic Age 52 The fellows razzed the life out of me. Ibid. 60, I don't mind the razzing myself,..but I don't like the things they said to poor little Wilkins. 1932J. Lawson Man's Life xvi. 161 The person who never could appreciate institutional life..is always with us... His chief hobby when at home has been razzing the wife, or his mother, because the bacon is too fat or too lean..and anyhow he doesn't like bacon at all. 1939L. Jacobs Rise Amer. Film 378 He turned out a series of domestic comedies that caused him to be hailed for his ‘razzing’ of American foibles. 1941J. McCormack in L. A. G. Strong John McCormack x. 168, I have seen a great deal of baseball in America, but I have never been able to reconcile myself to the continuous razzing of the pitcher. 1956B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) iii. 33 When I came to work the other girls used to razz me, call me ‘Duchess’ and say, ‘Look at her, she thinks she's a lady.’ 1968Punch 24 July 129/2 Ilya Ilf, pooh⁓poohing purges, Razzed Red Russians with wry stories. 1975A. Bergman Hollywood & Le Vine ii. 29, I continued on down the street... I anticipated the razzing of the Dead End Kids. 1977TV Times (Austral.) 20 Aug. 29/1 My kids will get razzed about it at school the next day. No one knows more about my mistakes than I do. |