Bronx cheer

English 2019 April 19 Etymology 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.Paul Dickson Paul Dickson (writer) Bronx cheer Skip McAfee The Dickson Baseball Dictionary 3rd New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company 2009 138 https://books.google.com/books?id=ceeU7xSLw5kC&pg=PA138 978-0-393-06681-4. Pronunciation en /ˌbɹɒŋks ˈt͡ʃɪə/ RP en /ˌbɹɑŋks ˈt͡ʃɪɹ/ GA en en-au-Bronx cheer.ogg AU Noun en US idiomatic en 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 noise. from 1920s en razz razzberry en w:The Washington Post Washington, D.C. 19 October 1921 16 4–5 Princeton's defeat by Annapolis is regretted here as the Staggs say if they win in the East it won't be held as such-a-much, whereas if Chicago loses the East will grin and give Western football the jolly old Bronx cheer. en w:Donald Hough Keep the Home Pies Burning: There’s Nothing so Soggy, so Flavorless or Indigestible as Home-cooked Dinner on the Farm w:Arnold Gingrich Esquire: The Magazine for Men Chicago, Ill. Esquire, Inc. April 1937 VII 4 (number 41 overall) 164 https://books.google.com/books?id=17YcAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA164 3 0014-0791 752409455 There is no reason, no sound reason—forgetting once more the beer-weeping—why our restaurants should not step out and claim the world's championship, give the homemade product the Bronx cheer, and have done with all this nonsense. en w:Bernard Malamud The Letter Rembrandt’s Hat New York, N.Y. w:Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1973 1986 105 https://books.google.com/books?id=UelD2ndA6ScC&pg=PA105 978-0-374-52034-2 "Why doesn't he write a few words to you? Or you could write a few words to him." / "A Bronx cheer on you." / "It's my letter," Teddy said. / "I don't care who writes it," said Newman. "I could write a message for you wishing him luck. I could say you hope he gets out of here soon." / "A Bronx cheer to that." en Lipstick Traces The Art of Yesterday's Crash w:Greil Marcus 2009 1989 Faber & Faber In London or New York in the late 1970s dada meant what it meant in Paris and New York at the end of the First World War: a not-quite-naked prank, a jape clothed in the barest g-string of aesthetic authority, a Bronx cheer in three-part harmony, Tzara's affirmation of the right “to piss and shit in different colors.” en w:J. Peter Burkholder ‘Quotation’ and Paraphrase in Ives’s Second Symphony w:Joseph Kerman Music at the Turn of Century: A 19th-century Music Reader California Studies in 19th-century Music 7 Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif. w:University of California Press 1990 footnote 34 53 https://books.google.com/books?id=q3oXMl7v9zgC&pg=PA53 978-0-520-06854-4 The original ending [of Charles Ives's Symphony No. 2] is preferable; the final dissonance in the published version is a Bronx cheer completely out of the spirit of the rest of the work. en Steven Englund Power (III): Naming It (From Citizen Consul to Emperor of the French) Napoleon: A Political Life Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 2004 book III (Contre nous, de la tyrannie) 247 https://books.google.com/books?id=N-ZJbxGwU4cC&pg=PA247 978-0-674-01803-7 He [Louis XIV of France] lost major battles and wars, signed ruinous treaties, handed over territories to his enemies, and so completely undermined his personal reputation that in 1715 his corpse was greeted with Bronx cheers as it went to its resting place. en Doug Kass Buffett Watch Doug Kass on the Market: A Life on the Street Hoboken, N.J. John Wiley & Sons 2014 409 https://books.google.com/books?id=7146BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA409 978-1-118-89298-5 As I walked up to the stage, numerous members of the audience recognized me and mostly yelled out, "Good luck," though there were some Bronx cheers. I felt like a heavyweight fighter approaching the ring to the cheers and boos of the crowd. Translations synonym of raspberry raspberry References Further reading blowing a raspberry https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bronx-cheer.html 2 January 2019 en terms derived from toponyms