Too much OP bashing?

[SD1]

"chav" as an informal British derogatory, meaning "a young lower-class person who displays brash and loutish behaviour and wears real or imitation designer clothes"

Soooo I am right and you are wrong....sweet at least you admitted it!

 

[ufkacbln]

"chav" as an informal British derogatory, meaning "a young lower-class person who displays brash and loutish behaviour and wears real or imitation designer clothes"

The same article also states:

n the 2010 book Stab Proof Scarecrows by Lance Manley, it was surmised that "chav" was an abbreviation for "council housed and violent"

 

[SD1]

Chav comes from the Romani word for 'little kid' or children.

Or just a coincidence.

 

[EltonFrog]

I first heard the word Chav when I was at school in the early 70's, my mate Pat Brooker (who's family were travellers but at that time were travelling Fairground folk) told me that his sister had a Chavy on the way, I had no idea what he was on about until he explained. Later in the eighties when I was in a band with Pat, he told me his girlfriend was chavved up.

 

[cd365]

Soooo I am right and you are wrong....sweet at least you admitted it!

It doesn't mention working class!
Council House and Violent is a bacronym.

 

[Tin Pot]

It doesn't mention working class!
Council House and Violent is a bacronym.

What's a bacronym?

 

[EltonFrog]

It doesn't mention working class!
Council House and Violent is a bacronym.

What's a bacronym?

I had to google that, you learn something new everyday!

 

[Tin Pot]

I had to google that, you learn something new everyday!

I assume it's a made up word then, and reject its existence

 

[Markymark]

What's a bacronym?

...an invented phrase.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Scuzzy is a local one here..chaves ? Shell suit brigade..trackie suit with a fag on and a tinnie etc

 

[swansonj]

I assume it's a made up word then, and reject its existence

As opposed to all the other words in the English language, which are ... err.....

 

[Tin Pot]

As opposed to all the other words in the English language, which are ... err.....

...defined in the 1982 Oxford English Dictionary.

It all turned to shoot after that point.

 

[Markymark]

'Northerners' seems to fit the bill.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

What's the difference between a chav and a scrote?

 

[martint235]

'Northerners' seems to fit the bill.

I seem to remember that Essex, in the south, is capital of Chavdom. So go and do a Westbrook