Usually means: Not conforming to upper-class norms.
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  1. non-U: Merriam-Webster
  2. non-U: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. non-U: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. non-U, non-U: Collins English Dictionary
  5. non-U: Vocabulary.com
  6. Non-U, non-u, non-U: Wordnik
  7. non-u, non-U: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. non-U: Wiktionary
  9. non-U: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. non-U: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. non-U: Dictionary.com
  12. Non-U: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. non-u: Rhymezone
  14. non-u: FreeDictionary.org
  15. non-u: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. non-U: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (non-U)

▸ adjective:  (chiefly British, colloquial, dated) Not U; not characteristic of the upper classes, particularly regarding language.

Similar:
low-class, lower-class, unvernacular, unBritish, unketh, unnoble, uncolloquial, unvulgar, noncolloquial, unked, more...

Opposite:
posh, upper-class, aristocratic, high-class, elite

Types:
sloth, giraffe, platypus, pangolin, echidna, koala, opossum, capybara, more...

Phrases:
U and non-U English, more...

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Similar:
low-class, lower-class, unvernacular, unBritish, unketh, unnoble, uncolloquial, unvulgar, noncolloquial, unked, more...

Opposite:
posh, upper-class, aristocratic, high-class, elite

Types:
sloth, giraffe, platypus, pangolin, echidna, koala, opossum, capybara, more...

Phrases:
U and non-U English, more...



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