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Meaning: (US,idiomatic)Synonym ofraspberry(“asoundintendedtoresembleflatulencemade byblowingairout of themouthwhile thetongueisprotrudingfrom andpressedagainst thelips, usedhumorouslyor toexpressdisdainorscorn”).[from 1920s]Synonyms:razz,razzberry1921October 19,The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., page16, columns4–5: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 oldBronx cheer.1937April,Donald Hough, “Keep the Home Pies Burning: There’s Nothing so Soggy, so Flavorless or Indigestible as Home-cooked Dinner on the Farm”, inArnold Gingrich, editor,Esquire: The Magazine for Men, volume VII, number 4 (number 41 overall), Chicago, Ill.: Esquire, Inc.,→ISSN,→OCLC,page164, column 3: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 theBronx cheer, and have done with all this nonsense.1973,Bernard Malamud, “The Letter”, inRembrandt’s Hat, New York, N.Y.:Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published1986,→ISBN,page105:"Why doesn't he write a few words to you? Or you could write a few words to him." / "ABronx cheeron 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." / "ABronx cheerto that."1989,Greil Marcus, “The Art of Yesterday's Crash”, inLipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published2009: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, aBronx cheerin three-part harmony, Tzara's affirmation of the right “to piss and shit in different colors.”1990,J. Peter Burkholder, “‘Quotation’ and Paraphrase in Ives’s Second Symphony”, inJoseph Kerman, editor,Music at the Turn of Century: A 19th-century Music Reader(California Studies in 19th-century Music; 7), Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.:University of California Press,→ISBN, footnote 34,page53:The original ending [ofCharles Ives'sSymphony No. 2] is preferable; the final dissonance in the published version is aBronx cheercompletely out of the spirit of the rest of the work.2004, Steven Englund, “Power (III): Naming It (From Citizen Consul to Emperor of the French)”, inNapoleon: A Political Life, Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press,→ISBN, book III (Contre nous, de la tyrannie),page247: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 withBronx cheersas it went to its resting place.2014, Doug Kass, “BuffettWatch”, inDoug Kass on the Market: A Life on the Street, Hoboken, N.J.:John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN,page409:As I walked up to the stage, numerous members of the audience recognized me and mostly yelled out, "Good luck," though there were someBronx cheers. I felt like a heavyweight fighter approaching the ring to the cheers and boos of the crowd.
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