Allison in Redwood City, California, says her family has long used the word zorbit to refer to what happens when someone playfully blows a raspberry on your cheek or belly to make a funny sound. That’s probably their version of a fanciful word first...
That sputtering noise when someone sticks out their tongue, puts their lips together, and blows is called a raspberry. No one knows the origin of this slang term, although it may have to do with that pileup of consonants colliding in the middle of...
Zerbert is another name for making a sputtering raspberry on a child’s belly. Chris from Rockwell, Texas, wants to know whether Bill Cosby coined the word, a question that comes up at home with a three-year-old and a six-year-old and plenty of...
