Offglide

Alternative forms

• off-glide

Full definition of offglide

Noun

1. (linguistics) A glide caused by the movement of the articulators away from their position in articulating the previous speech sound.
2. (linguistics) The final, weaker part of a complex vowel, such as a diphthong, as the /ɪ/ sound of the /ɔɪ/ in boy.