blow a raspberry Definition

raspberry
noun raspberries

1. The cone-shaped berry made up of several usually reddish, but also black or pale yellow, drupelets each of which contains a single seed.
2. The plant which produces this berry, a deciduous shrub which has upright thorny canes and is cultivated in Europe and N America.
3a. A sound expressing disapproval or contempt, made by blowing through the lips.
3b. slang
A refusal or a rebuke.

adj

1. Like the red colour of a raspberry, ie varying from pale to deep bluish-pink.
2. Made with or from raspberries.

Idiom: blow a raspberry

To make a raspberry (sense 3a) sound.

Etymology: 17c.