razz en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Clipping of raspberry.
Meanings
- (uncountable) A version of seven-card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).
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razz en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
Clipping of raspberry.
Meanings
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(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:
- (informal) To tease playfully; to heckle. ▸ To heckle by blowing a raspberry.
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(Australia, Newfoundland, UK, informal, qualifier:Labrador) 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| razzed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| razzed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| razzing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| razzes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |