to razz
5
9.1
- verb
- /ræz/
- Informal
:
burlar
- The beat guys'll enjoy razzing him about getting accused of being a pimp.
- razzing the guy
- fans razz
- gets razzed
I told you, I'm going to be razzing the fuck out of people.
- I told you, I'm going to be razzing the fuck out of people.
- Because when you're the bigger man, you don't get to razz either.
- I was like, so, so, so honestly, I think you're rolling with like trying to razz them, razz yourself.
Examples
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He playfully razzed her about her new haircut, but she took it well.
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Look, I was razzing the guy.
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You can razz me all you want, doc.
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The kids are really gonna razz us to death when they hear about this.
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The guys would razz him for weeks.
Fiction book (1990) -
We're just razzing you, kid.
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But you know," he smiled, "those guys are gonna really razz you for a while."
Fiction book (1993) -
The men razz him mercilessly.
Fiction book (1999) -
Poor Winona, we razzed her so much.
Fiction book (1993) -
Ever since he'd announced his plans to marry Hannah, his father had razzed him.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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3.5
To tease someone in a friendly, playful way
245
1.9
To make fun of someone in a way that annoys them
93
5.8
To mock someone again and again to make them angry or upset
62
7.5
To annoy someone by criticizing them again and again
35
6.8
To tease someone to make them angry or upset
25
3.9
To make jokes about someone to make them look silly
23
3.4
To make jokes about someone, sometimes to be playful and sometimes to be unkind
9
4.6
To tease someone in a friendly, playful way
7
6.5
Make fun of someone in a friendly, playful way
5
5.2
To tease someone repeatedly in a friendly way
4
9.8
To tease someone again and again with small mean remarks
2
3.8
To tease someone in a friendly, joking way
1
7.5
To joke or tease someone in a friendly way
1
8.1
To tease someone in a playful way
1
7.2
To tease someone repeatedly, either playfully or cruelly
1
8.2
To tease someone with repeated mean or mocking remarks
1
8.7
To make a playful joke or trick someone to make them laugh
1
9.0
To tease or nag someone, often in a playful way
To make fun of someone in a playful way
To tease or nag someone in a way that annoys them
To annoy someone or make them angry
To tease someone in a childish, playful way
To make a short teasing sound to annoy or mock someone
Idioms
How Mocking
Surface Forms
Etymology
Razz as a verb comes from the same short form of raspberry, the funny 'blowing a raspberry' noise used to show scorn, so to razz someone is to tease or mock them.