Chav

[Jazzy]

Etymology

The term has its origins in the Romani word chavi, meaning child (or chavo, meaning boy, or chavvy, meaning youth. The derivative chavette has been used to refer to females. The adjectives chavish and chavtastic have been used in relation to items designed for or suitable for use by chavs.



Stereotype

The stereotype of a Chav includes wearing branded designer sportswear. Stereotypical attire might be accompanied by some form of gold jewellery otherwise termed 'bling'.



Questions:



Ever hear of Chav's?



Do you know any Chav's?

 

[The Dragon Master]

There's loads in Darlo. It's like Chav central

 

[The Dragon Master]

Darlington, England. Sorry I automatically use the local name for it

 

[Jazzy]

There's loads in Darlo. It's like Chav central

Could you please explain to me better what a Chav is?

 

[The Dragon Master]

Could you please explain to me better what a Chav is?

Here's some pics of typical chavs. It's hard to explain in words.

 

[Sinon]

Could you please explain to me better what a Chav is?

Generally, they are unemployed, older teens/early-to-mid twenties, wear sports gear despite not playing sports, have a hard man walk when they're weak as fuck when they're alone. They're loud, abusive, crass, rude alcoholics with no place in the world aside from inflicting annoyance upon upstanding citizens. They also basically have their own language, though much of it is plagiarized from the gangsta side of the US.

 

[Jazzy]

I found this information but since I've never heard of a Chav, not sure how accurate it is:



Humanoid in appearance, but primative and animalistic in nature, chavs are fast becoming the bane of humanity. Now all but classified as a completely seperate species, chavs took the left of the fork on the road of evolution when everybody else went right. Today, chavs can be seen in almost every urban area of Britain. Easily identified by either their baseball caps, hooped sports sweaters, excess Burberry and impossibly colourful Nike trainers (male) or scraped back frizzy hair, earrings you could train a dolphin to jump through, cheap leggings and Reebok Classics (female), chavs hunt in packs. Unlike other species, chavs hunt for cigarettes and bus fare instead of food. Food is always obtained at fast food establishments such as McDonalds, or convenience stores (Spar, Late Shop). It is quite common for food to be thrown instead of eaten, with the chav preferring his / her fags and cider / Lambrini (charver cava). Chavs are normally hostile towards humans, particularly those who favour alternative music, whom they have branded moshers or grungers. A chav's music collection is limited. Hip-hop and hardcore for the males, Britney and trance for the females. Dogs (the more volatile, the better), mobile phones, cheap or fake gold and souped-up (debadged) 1990's Vauxhall Novas are must-have accessories.

 

[The Dragon Master]

Dragon ......do they wear their pants down around their ass like they do here or is that just a North America thing ?

Yeah they do. I saw one and he had his trousers around his knees. He was walking like he'd done something in his underwear.

I found this information but since I've never heard of a Chav, not sure how accurate it is:



Humanoid in appearance, but primative and animalistic in nature, chavs are fast becoming the bane of humanity. Now all but classified as a completely seperate species, chavs took the left of the fork on the road of evolution when everybody else went right. Today, chavs can be seen in almost every urban area of Britain. Easily identified by either their baseball caps, hooped sports sweaters, excess Burberry and impossibly colourful Nike trainers (male) or scraped back frizzy hair, earrings you could train a dolphin to jump through, cheap leggings and Reebok Classics (female), chavs hunt in packs. Unlike other species, chavs hunt for cigarettes and bus fare instead of food. Food is always obtained at fast food establishments such as McDonalds, or convenience stores (Spar, Late Shop). It is quite common for food to be thrown instead of eaten, with the chav preferring his / her fags and cider / Lambrini (charver cava). Chavs are normally hostile towards humans, particularly those who favour alternative music, whom they have branded moshers or grungers. A chav's music collection is limited. Hip-hop and hardcore for the males, Britney and trance for the females. Dogs (the more volatile, the better), mobile phones, cheap or fake gold and souped-up (debadged) 1990's Vauxhall Novas are must-have accessories.

Yeah that's pretty accurate.

 

[Evil Eye]

Ah, decadence

That's nothing new.

 

[Raven]

Norwich has plenty of Chavs too :/

 

[Raven]

Dragon ......do they wear their pants down around their ass like they do here or is that just a North America thing ?

No, not just American, But actually Chavs here usually pull there trousers up. It's the young trendy guys that tend to have they;re trousers round they're ankles.

 

[Jazzy]

I see there is a female version as well:



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Basically, the female version of a chav. The chavette will have at least 5 of the following characteristics; gold hoop earrings big enough for a parrot to sit on; pink/blue velour tracksuit; white trainers/stilettos; burbery anything; fag in hand; Croydon Facelift caused by pulling her hair into a ponytail so tightly that it stretches her face; caked on makeup; sullen look; upraised middle finger; low slung jeans; pushchair and baby.



All chavettes, regardless of weight, will be wearing their clothes at least 2 sizes too small. They will wear their tracksuit bottoms and low slung jeans in such a way that their huge gut/pregnant bump is exposed and when they bend over, their thong.



The chavette will be pregnant with her first child before she reaches 5th year; the father may or may not hang around. Some chavettes can have around 5 kids with different fathers. They will still believe that having sex while standing up will ensure that they don't get pregnant and will insist on keeping the hapless baby to ensure that they get a council house. The chavette will also be seen slapping her kids around the head and swearing at them in public.[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]

Chavette: (to kid) Shut the fuck up, Darren!

 

[The Dragon Master]

Yeah that sounds right too

Seen so many of these XD