In Your Family, What Do You Call It When You Blow A Raspberry On A Kid's Tummy?

[rastahomie]

When you put your mouth on a baby's tummy and blow a raspberry, we call it a "Zoobert." What do you call it?

 

[wenrob]

Zerbit

 

[thinkerbell]

Zerbit

 

[DopeyDame]

Zerbirt. (Thanks to Bill Cosby, of course, which makes me feel a little icky now when I say it...)

 

[rastahomie]

Zerbirt. (Thanks to Bill Cosby, of course, which makes me feel a little icky now when I say it...)

Don't let Bill Cosby steal your joy!

 

[sam_gordon]

Zerbert (or zerbirt I guess) here also.

 

[porschegrl]

I don't know how it's spelled, but we call it a butz (pronounce the "u" like in "put").

 

[pryncess527]

Raspberry

 

[rastahomie]

I don't know how it's spelled, but we call it a butz (pronounce the "u" like in "put").

I ask this from a place of genuine curiosity, and not from prejudice or stereotyping: are you Jewish? I ask because Yiddish has a lot of words with that vowel sound and consonant sound. Putz, yutz, kibbutz, schmutz, and so on.

 

[Mizzoufan]

Just Raspberry. I.didn't know there was a actual name

 

[Wendy31]

Zerbert here too!

 

[porschegrl]

I ask this from a place of genuine curiosity, and not from prejudice or stereotyping: are you Jewish? I ask because Yiddish has a lot of words with that vowel sound and consonant sound. Putz, yutz, kibbutz, schmutz, and so on.

I'm not, but I too have wondered about the linguistic source of the term. I think it came to our family via an aunt by marriage, who also is not Jewish, but whose people come from Germany and Poland.

Or maybe we're overthinking it, and it's just a funny word that someone made up.

 

[Poohforyou]

Raspberry. I don't understand calling something that already has a silly made up name another silly made up name.

 

[rastahomie]

Raspberry. I don't understand calling something that already has a silly made up name another silly made up name.

Because English is awesome.

 

[wilkeliza]

Raspberry.

 

[Magpie]

Raspberry. I don't understand calling something that already has a silly made up name another silly made up name.

I could say the same thing about calling a zerbert a raspberry.

It has whatever name it has, in your own particular family/community. My kids grew up getting zerberted by their family, so they'll naturally zerbert their own kids when their time comes. Why would they ever call it a raspberry?

By the way, fun fact, my dog is terrified of my brother-in-law because her zerberted her little pink tummy once when she was a puppy. Over a decade later, and she still slinks around him when he comes over. Moral - don't zerbert dogs!

 

[cluvsdisney]

My father used to call them royal fandazzos.

 

[rastahomie]

My father used to call them royal fandazzos.

Your father sounds like a hoot.

 

[wilkeliza]

I could say the same thing about calling a zerbert a raspberry.

It has whatever name it has, in your own particular family/community. My kids grew up getting zerberted by their family, so they'll naturally zerbert their own kids when their time comes. Why would they ever call it a raspberry?

By the way, fun fact, my dog is terrified of my brother-in-law because her zerberted her little pink tummy once when she was a puppy. Over a decade later, and she still slinks around him when he comes over. Moral - don't zerbert dogs!

HAHA it is true that dogs hate it! My fiance raspberryed our dogs as puppies and now if you just make the noise they freak out.

 

[cluvsdisney]

Your father sounds like a hoot.

Yep, he was a lot of fun.