| 单词 | u-ness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasU-ness b. U n. upper class, esp. with reference to linguistic usage; as n., U persons or characteristics collectively, U language. Hence U-ness. Cf. non-U adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] optimacy1579 aristocracy1651 great world1699 peerage1725 well-connected1788 governing class1795 patriciate1795 well-connected1831 caste1842 (the) salt of the earth1842 the leisured class(es1848 japonicadom1851 countyocracy1859 masterclass1861 proprietariat1872 four hundred1888 the Establishment1923 gratin1934 power élite1942 U1954 upper1955 topside1958 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > state of being aristocratic aristocraticalness1731 aristocraticness1877 classiness1927 poshness1931 upper-classness1950 U-ness1954 1954 A. S. C. Ross in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 55 21 (title) U and non-U. 1956 Times 1 Mar. 11/5 He is what, in old-fashioned ‘U’ was called a ‘rattle’ and, in ‘Non-U’, a ‘scream’. 1956 W. H. Auden Making, Knowing & Judging 15 Poets and scholars have one thing in common. They are not gentlemen. The U is that which both, being non-U, with passion worship. 1956 A. S. C. Ross in N. Mitford Noblesse Oblige 26 Fault, also, Balkans,..are pronounced by the U as if spelt fawlt, awlso, bawlkans. 1957 E. Hyams Speaking Garden vi. 68 Spinacia oleracea of Linnaeus... I must say, at the risk of being accused of gastronomic U-ness..is the only one I care to eat. 1958 Oxf. Mag. 15 May 432/2 He..dropped the final ‘g's’ of his present participles in a manner then ‘U’. 1959 New Statesman 17 Oct. 499/1 My own personal participation..was to go and speak for Fenner Brockway at Eton and Slough. For me, he is a nostalgic figure of the old Labour Party into which I was born, and therefore more sympathetic than the later U intake. 1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship ix. 166 ‘I don't think he's really U, though, do you?’ ‘Oh no. Shabby genteel, maybe.’ 1968 New Society 22 Aug. 266/1 In London, Mayfair, once so very U, is still so in some sort, but few U people live there as it is so expensive. 1970 Daily Tel. 27 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 12 The point is not so much that U-speech and U-behaviour are, by some absolute standard, superior but that they are indicators. If you want to be unobtrusive, or effective, in a U context, you must adopt U manners. 1977 D. Bennett Jigsaw Man xii. 225 He had spoken with a distinct English accent. Very U, indeed. < as lemmas |
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