people keep sayin chav and its annoyin so... well what is a chav?
2007-03-22 22:46:41 · 21 answers · asked by toutch my food feel my fork 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
It is someone sitting in Yahoo Answers Team who has nothing better to do than give out Violation notices for perfectly truthful and honest answers!!!
2007-03-22 22:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by saintee 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Chav is derived from an old English Term that means poor person. In modern day English is generally used as a derogatory term.
The widely held view in my community is that a Chav is someone who wears a tracksuit around town (often tucking their trousers into their socks) and listens to rap music.
Chavs are obsessed with Sporting Labels such as Nike, Lactose and Adidas
Chavs are often violent.
Other names for Chavs include... Yob, Hoddie and Ned (ned is a police term that stands for Non Educated Delinquent)
This is a picture of some classic Chavs http://www.yusef.co.uk/chav.JPG
One False acronym I know of is
Council House Associated Vermin
2007-03-25 09:07:07 · answer #2 · answered by jackkenyon1991 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets clear something up not ALL chavs live in council houses, i live in a council house and i am defiantly not a chav!
Chavs are normally teenage boys/girls who look like clones of each other, girls wear massive gold hooped earrings, and enough bling to put MR T in the shade and wear nasty tracksuits with writing across the bum and have the biggest highest tightly pulled pony tails you have ever seen.
Boy's tend to wear anything with a designer label, usually snide ones from the local market and walk and talk like "de is in da ghetto innit"
In the olden days people like this were actually burnt at the stake, we live in hope!
2007-03-23 12:26:58 · answer #3 · answered by The Original Highbury Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've had lots of answers about what a chav is understood to be now, but where did the word come from?
I understood that it is a corruption of the Romany word "chal" meaning a male person or fellow (the feminine is "chai" or "chi"). When a group of romanies were together (perhaps at a local fair) this gave rise to "chavish" as a colloquial description of how they were speaking.
So, going round in a circle, people who spoke "chavish" must be "chavs"...
2007-03-24 14:05:03 · answer #4 · answered by LadyOok 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chavish the dialect of the chav.
Believing that he is a bad boy gangsta rapper, the chav or chavette will converse with others in a secret language. Scientists have been working for years on trying to decipher chavish but to no avail. Other than swear words that you will manage to pick out, you will not understand any of this tirade; simply assume its not pleasant and probably involves your parents and a dog.
2007-03-22 22:55:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chav or Charv/Charver is a mainly derogatory slang term in the United Kingdom for a subcultural stereotype fixated on fashions such as gold jewellary and 'designer' clothing.
2007-03-26 03:53:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A chav is someone who goes around constently wearing tracksuits and baseball caps. they are the ones normaly that hang out in large groups and will cause trouble i.e vandlising, fights, knife attacks and possibly even shootings.
2007-03-22 22:52:58 · answer #7 · answered by chaz_mgs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the UK a chav generally means Council House and Violent.
2007-03-22 22:49:37 · answer #8 · answered by lalalaland 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Baseball caps , Burberry and tracksuits oh and also lots of Elizabeth Duke chunky gold jewellery.
I laughed at a sign on a local pub door which said "No football scarves, football tops or BURBERRY. lol
2007-03-22 23:26:28 · answer #9 · answered by feebee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone who wears a burghaus, tracksuit bottom tucked in socks! smokes snouts (ciggerettes) drinks bella (£1 a bottle wine) in the park. listens to the 'new monkey' music taped from inside a rave club up here! talks in the weirdest voice! lol x
2007-03-22 22:58:16 · answer #10 · answered by princess 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋