upturn

If your 11-year-old mocks you by making a cawing voice, upturn his dinner plate and mock his mocking voice.

But those most dramatically affected by the “amazing” upturn are people who write comic novels and blog for The Daily Beast.

He was just in time to catch the quick upturn of a passing face.

In the void Glancing, his tail upturn'd its venomous fork, With sting like scorpion's arm'd.

Straightway the winds upturn the main, and great seas rise; we are tossed asunder over the dreary gulf.

This was about twenty feet long, and ended in a little upturn so that a sled would shoot up with a jerk and come down with a bang.

There a slant upturn of tight-drawn lids revealed the quintessence of priestly cruelty.