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"I Just Found Out What "chav" Stands For."

Why did no-one inform me?

It's quite good.

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> I still think it's just a stolen and mutated version of
> "charver",

See six posts below. :D

well chavs r thieves most of the time, so chav roughly meaning thef is true, it can also mean a person is childish, and they are mostly that aswell!

I've often heard it comes from the fact Chavs first emerged in Chatham, and couldn't pronounce the name properly... then again, someone speaking with a fake London accent to sound "Hard" has trouble pronouncing most words.

I doubteth this muchly, as they seem to populate Essex as heavily as northern Kent. Why I typeth as if I speaketh a retarded versione olde English, I am not know'd of.

It's derived from the phrase "Chatham native".

I heard chav for the first time a couple of years ago. Oh and I have a few lame chav jokes as well:

What do You call a chav in a box?
Innit

What do you call a thirty year old Chavette?
A Granny

I thought it was named after a crappy place in England.

In case you don't know "Chav" is the Irish name for child.

Don't know how Chavs became known as Chavs (if that makes sense)

Cool
Hangbag
Aunty
Vera

Chr1s wrote:
"I heard the word chav for the first time last year. Up until then, I just called them townies."
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Yep, it was the same for me too.

While talking to a "smelly jitter" I referred to a certain group of people as Townies, but apparently they were Chavs, there is a difference and that I needed to get it right. :(


The funny thing is though, most Chavs don't actually realise what they are and still label others they see as... Chavs. Actually, that's pretty sad. For them. :)

"Stupid townie"
"I'm not a townie! I'm a chav!"
"Stupid chav"