Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) to tease, to heckle, to barrack, to scold, thus n. razzer.

1914		Recreation helps (NY State College of Agric.) n.p.: It is not long before you have all of the fun of a baseball game, with one side razzing the players of the opposing side as well as the umpire.
1918		T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 68: Razzing the office fathead who always comes in and dumps the snow off himself into everyone’s rubbers and coats.
1921		Brymn & Handy ‘Aunt Hagar’s Children Blues’ 🎵 Why all this razzing, about the jazzing? My boys have just come home, With latest music, they play it on the saxophone.
1932		‘R. Scully’ Scarlet Pansy 28: Are you razzing me?
1934		(con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 232: They were having such a good time razzing Andy.
1949		N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 233: He felt he was being razzed and walked off.
1953		‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 76: Barney was hot on the kidding, a perpetual razzer.
1959		E. De Roo Go, Man, Go! 7: Paul noticed how red Pa’s face was when he turned into the drive. He couldn’t take much razzing.
1965		H. Rhodes Chosen Few (1966) 176: Rivers would either be the most popular recruit to go through Montford, or the most razzed.
1971		L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 75: As an answer to the mysteries of life it’s a Bronx cheer [...] the kind your uncle Louie used to razz the quarterback with from behind a Schlitz on Saturday afternoon.
1978		P. Theroux Picture Palace 143: I’ll stop razzing you if you tell me.
1986		L. Heinemann Paco’s Story (1987) 63: They razz him about the big deal he wants to make about a couple of skinned knuckles.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 136: The latecoming collegiate mafia began razzing Desdemona.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 648: The jockeys razzed him — fuck you, Fritz — you’re a camel jockey.
2010		(con. 1973) C. Stella Johnny Porno 57: Third-base field boxes. You can razz the Oriole players up close.