ひっくり返す

• (Tokyo) ひっくりかえす [hìkkúríkáꜜèsù] (Nakadaka – [5])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [çik̚kɯ̟ɾʲika̠e̞sɨ]

ひっくり返(かえ)す • (hikkurikaesu) ^{←ひっくりかへす (fikkurikafesu)?}transitive godan (stem ひっくり返(かえ)し (hikkurikaeshi), past ひっくり返(かえ)した (hikkurikaeshita))

1. to turn over, upside down
2. to flip, flick, thumb through (a book, etc.)
   • 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 40, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 下 先生と遺書 [Sensei's Testament]:

     私(わたくし)は広(ひろ)い机(つくえ)の片隅(かたすみ)で窓(まど)から射(さ)す光線(こうせん)を半身(はんしん)に受(う)けながら、新着(しんちゃく)の外国雑誌(がいこくざっし)を、あちらこちらと引(ひ)っ繰(く)り返(かえ)して見(み)ていました。

     Watakushi wa hiroi tsukue no katasumi de mado kara sasu kōsen o hanshin ni ukenagara, shinchaku no gaikoku zasshi o, achirakochira to hikkurikaeshite mite imashita.

     I sat at the corner of a large desk, half my body bathed in light from the window, and tried flicking through the newly arrived foreign journals.