variants:
or less commonly up-talk
Definition of uptalk
: speech in which each clause, sentence, etc., ends like a question with a rising inflection
Starting in America with the Valley Girls of the 1980s …, uptalk became common among young women across the country by the 1990s.— Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2012
— called also upspeak
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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The first known use of uptalk was in 1993
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