ˈupglide Phonol.
[up- 2 a: see next and glide n. 4.]
An upward glide.
| 1930 [see down-glide]. 1957 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxviii. 115 Normally or marks the division between rise and fall, itself occurring at the end of the upglide. 1972 W. Labov Language in Inner City i. 9 In New York and other northern cities,..the back upglide of ball and hawk, so characteristic of many southern areas, is rarely heard. |