# Is there a name for this noise? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 30, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614 "2008-01-30T18:10:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/1 "2008-01-30T18:10:15Z")
I ask the following on behalf of my sister… You know what when you stick your tongue partway out and go “pppbbtthhhhh” you are “Blowing a raspberry”—right? SO- If you place your index finger lightly across your lips, in a horizontal position, and rapidly jiggle it straight up and down while making a noise, you go,“bupitabupitabupitabupita” WHAT IS DOING THAT CALLED??? (I did explain to her that “raspberry” was from the Cockney rhyming slang for “fart.”) ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/2 "2008-01-30T18:12:15Z")
You mean like when someone says: “That guy is totally crazy! Bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu, crazy!” ? I’ve heard it called “bibble”. Sort of like “babble” but I don’t know where I’ve heard that. It had something to do with babies. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/3 "2008-01-30T20:33:55Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] You mean like when someone says: “That guy is totally crazy! Bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bu, crazy!” ? [/QUOTE] Precisely. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/4 "2008-01-30T20:44:26Z")
Just don’t try Googling with the keywords “fingers on vibrating lips crazy”. It ain’t a result set safe for work, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/5 "2008-01-30T23:34:49Z")
Like **Swallowed My Cellphone** , I’ve seen the noise produced written as “bibble,” but I don’t know of a term for the act itself. “Bibbling”? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/6 "2008-01-31T00:21:49Z")
Blowing a raspberry is called a linguolabial trill. Maybe we can come up with something using the word “bilabial”. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/7 "2008-01-31T03:20:30Z")
I’m thinking digitobilabial trill. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/8 "2008-01-31T03:26:11Z")
[QUOTE=Lama Pacos] I’m thinking digitobilabial trill. [/QUOTE] I don’t think it’s a trill, because (I think) in a trill, the vibration is caused by air passing over/between the elements – e.g., in the case of the linguolabial trill, the lips and the tongue. In bibbling (that seems to be the common term for it), the vibration is caused by the finger. A voiced digitolabial plosive?!?? ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/9 "2008-01-31T03:41:35Z")
You’re right, but I don’t think it would be a plosive either-- that does little to describe the outside source of the motion. Digitolabial click? A ridiculous stretch, but if a click is the result of applying and removing pressure, that’s kinda sorta what the finger does. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/10 "2008-01-31T14:26:40Z")
[QUOTE=Patty O’Furniture] a linguolabial trill [/QUOTE] Damn, where’s Ezri Dax when I really need her? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-noise/435614/11 "2008-01-31T16:15:16Z")
The pppllbbbb? That’s _pseudoflatulence._ I spent a little time trying to track down “Bibble,” as a mouth noise. Alas, nothing rose to the bait. It’s the name of a software company, and that got in the way. As a slang term, with widely various meanings, it seems to have sprouted from Snoop Dogg’s enigmatic shizzle-talk. My old 12 pound Webster says \*bibble-babble \* is idle chat. It says a _bibber_ is a man known to be a drinker, leading me to remember a moment in the movie _Amadeus_. \*Mozart was at his pool table. He was writing down music, bouncing around a pool ball, and drinking wine. A fellow (Salieri?) comes in to ask if he has finished a piece of music he has promised. Mozart says it’s finished, pointing to his head. “The rest is just scribbling. Scribbling and bibbling, bibbling and scribbling.” \* I understood his “bibbling” to mean drinking.