Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a scolding, a telling off.

1921		R. Lardner ‘A Frame-Up’ in Coll. Short Stories (1941) 427: I’d of rather took fifty socks on the jaw than the razzing the crowd give Bat.
1930		C.R. Shaw Jack-Roller 99: I received a clout on the ear, and then a general beating and razzing.
1958		(con. 1950) E. Frankel Band of Brothers 2: I was gettin’ a razzin’ from her family [...] Then we find out it’s not me.

2. a teasing.

1923		H.C. Witwer Fighting Blood 111: He says if he was me he wouldn’t pay no attention to the razzing I’ll get the first time I walk down the aisle to the ring in a fight club with a baby blue silk bathrobe on.
1934		(con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 423: The razzing suddenly turned on Jerry Rooney because he had a big nose.
1947		N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 83: The fellas begun giv’n me a Christ-awful razzin’ then.
1955		R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 280: They give me a big razzing over my being an actor.
1963		A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 43: Sometimes they give you a razzing.
1978		R. Price Ladies’ Man (1985) 97: The razzing was nothing serious.
1989		Hackworth & Sherman About Face (1991) 133: What a razzing I took from my roommates.