Definitions

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  • noun Geordie, pejorative Alternative spelling of charva.

Etymologies

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Of Romani origin, see charva.

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Examples

  • Also known as a charver in Yorkshire and North East England [1] "chav" is often used to describe aggressive teenagers, of white working class background, who repeatedly engage in anti-social behaviour such as street drinking, drug abuse and rowdiness, or other forms of juvenile delinquency. [

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

  • In the north-east, chav or charver is not, as she implies, exclusively used by middle or upper-class people to belittle their supposed social inferiors, but is often used by people of the same socioeconomic group to refer to antisocial elements within that group, the point being that "chav" denotes a lifestyle choice rather than a class.

    Letters: On the fault lines of fractured Britain 2011

  • Inverse snobbery in some underclass households is quintessentially charver and I suspect the Sociofascists love this, as it breeds a new, larger ever-dependent lumpen mass who will vote for them.

    Fiona Millar on 'Segregational Selection' 2007

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