The word 'Chav'

[The Large One]

A while ago, I asked on here what 'Chav' was, and what the word meant. Believe me, I saw plenty at Upton Park yesterday. I got plenty of replies about Scallies and Pikeys, etc, but none about the origins of the word.

Well now, it appears, someone has decided to fill me in, as it were.

Apparently, it is the term used by people in the posher parts of Kent (Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells etc) for people who live in the Medway towns. It is a bastardised abbreviation of 'Chatham'.

Now I apologise if this sounds like 'God, everyone knows THAT' but no-one on here would say, so I had to find out myself, and now I'm delighted that I have found out. And now I'm off to do something else completely pointless.

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

If you are "into chavs" then take a look at this website

 

[Bobby's Gull]

All my mates in T.wells call pikees chavs and all my mates in Eastbourne call them townies. When i say townies to my T.wells mates, they're like wtf u on abt?!

 

[Crazy Cornish Gal]

Well i didn't know that so thanks for shedding the light

 

[Thimble Keegan]

I have a large hatred for pikey's and at the game last Tuesday I was not only informed that they are also known as "Chavs" but there are websites dedicated to taking the piss out of said town scum. I have spent a fair bit of this weekend looking at these sites and pissing myself laughing

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

 

[Crazy Cornish Gal]

They really are quite sad, and the funniest thing is, they just don't know it!! Infact they think they look 'cool' or 'rock hard' hmm

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Go into Churchill Sq of a Saturday afternoon, you'll see plenty there. Sad little pricks.

 

[Sea]

If you are "into chavs" then take a look at this website

haha its just like being at home in surrey all over again! why do they always seem to congregate in and around shopping centres? do they not have a home to go to!

 

[Crazy Cornish Gal]

Go into Churchill Sq of a Saturday afternoon, you'll see plenty there. Sad little pricks.

I see plenty in asda everyday, they annoy me and get in my way, if i could get away with telling them to f*** off without losing my job, then i would

 

[Blackadder]

Now I apologise if this sounds like 'God, everyone knows THAT' but no-one on here would say, so I had to find out myself, and now I'm delighted that I have found out. And now I'm off to do something else completely pointless.

No need to apologise TLO. I still haven't worked out where the term PIKEY comes from. I've asked at work and on a fair few sites (including the Gillingham one). No one seems to know!

Anyone care to throw light on the origins of the work Pikey?

 

[Seagullmatt]

I'd never heard of Pikey until I saw the film Snatch. Since then, everybody seems to use it. I'd never heard Chav until the thread about posting pictures of Chav's girlfriend.

 

[Dover]

Comming from Kent originally, albeit south east, chav is a term for a mate. Whilst Pikey is a slang term for a traveller in the Romany sense.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

If you want to find the home of the chav, go to a motorway service station. A mate and I went down to Dorset a couple of weeks and we stopped at the Fleet services. The fast food joints were running with them. I'm sure my reactolite lenses went dark with all the white trainers. Another home for them is Basildon. I'm no class snob, but why, when about 5% of the population is upper class, about 35% working class and the rest somewhere in the middle, are there so many chavs at motorway service stations?

 

[The Large One]

Comming from Kent originally, albeit south east, chav is a term for a mate.

Oh dear. Not any more.

 

[Gwylan]

Apparently, it is the term used by people in the posher parts of Kent (Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells etc) for people who live in the Medway towns. It is a bastardised abbreviation of 'Chatham'.

Now I apologise if this sounds like 'God, everyone knows THAT' but no-one on here would say, so I had to find out myself, and now I'm delighted that I have found out. And now I'm off to do something else completely pointless.

Hmmm...there's been a debate on this in the Spectator recently and the general consensus is that it's a Romany word.

However, last week's issue put forward the theory that it was derived from the Hungarian csavo(pronounced chavo) meaning a 'young man'.

Who knows? It's geat to see a new word emerge from nowhere though.

 

[magoo]

They really are quite sad, and the funniest thing is, they just don't know it!! Infact they think they look 'cool' or 'rock hard' hmm

They're the best kind of chav. You can laugh at them and they don't know why.

GOD SAVE THE CHAVS (for the amusement of the rest of us)

 

[El Presidente]

Where would we be witout an ignorant underclass to feel supoerior to? Get those trackie bots on gang

 

[Yorkie]

She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College
That's where I caught her eye
She told me that her Dad was loaded
I said "In that case I'll have rum and coca-cola
She said "fine"
And then in 30 seconds time she said
"I want to live like common people
I want to do whatever common people do
I want to sleep with common people
I want to sleep with common people like you"
Well what else could I do?
I said "I'll see what I can do"
I took her to a supermarket
I don't know why
but I had to start it somewhere
so it started there
I said "pretend you've got no money"
but she just laughed
and said "oh you're so funny"
I said "Yeah
Well I don't see anyone else smiling in here
Are you sure
you want to live like common people
you want to see whatever common people see
you want to sleep with common people
you want to sleep with common people like me?"
But she didn't understand
she just smiled and held my hand
Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'cos when you're laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall
if you called your dad he could stop it all
yeah
You'll never live like common people
You'll never do whatever common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
and then dance and drink and screw
'cos there's nothing else to do
Sing along with the common people
Sing along and it might just get you through
Laugh along with the common people
Laugh along although they're laughing at you
and the stupid things that you do
because you think that poor is cool
Like a dog lying in a corner
they will bite and never warn you
Look out
they'll tear your insides out
'cos everybody hates a tourist
especially one who thinks
it's all such a laugh
yeah and the chip stain's grease
will come out in the bath
You will never understand
how it feels to live your life
with no meaning or control
and with nowhere else to go
You are amazed that they exist
and they burn so bright
while you can only wonder why
Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'cos when you're laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall
if you called your dad he could stop it all
You'll never live like common people
You'll never do whatever common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
and dance and drink and screw
'cos there's nothing else to do
I want to live with common people like you.....

 

[mona]

Re: Re: The word 'Chav'

Hmmm...there's been a debate on this in the Spectator recently and the general consensus is that it's a Romany word.

However, last week's issue put forward the theory that it was derived from the Hungarian csavo(pronounced chavo) meaning a 'young man'.

Who knows? It's geat to see a new word emerge from nowhere though.

I thought that chavvie is the Romany word for kid and pikey is Kent slang for traveller. Pikey being short for turnpike the old word for road.
Old words with new meanings.

 

[METALMICKY]

They've just opened a new LIDL store in Eastbourne an its drawing in CHAVS from everywhere. Special Offer this week, can of lager 25p!!!!!!!