Chav

C. Maoxian: @chav: They had been dealing with the evil C.iC.ms for several years before they decided to grow a pair .... chav: It ain't suicide, and it all aint money in life. ❋ C. Maoxian (2010)

Two years ago, the Fabian Society called for the word "chav" to be banned. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Phil ElsdonDurham• Polly Toynbee is right in pointing to the social divisiveness caused by the use of the word "chav". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Dr Anna Eleri LivingstoneLondon• While I can agree with much of what Polly Toynbee has to say – especially about Iain Duncan Smith and his friends in the Tory press who peddle the disingenuous nonsense that people are "trapped" on benefits as though cutting benefits would somehow lead to a better living standard – she is mistaken about the meaning and use of the word "chav". ❋ Unknown (2011)

I think Russell sorry, Mr. Davies, I don't know him personally occasionally makes the odd miscalculation, usually with his humour - in this case the overuse of the word chav, which is everywhere right now over here, but which I doubt will be so current millenia in the future. ❋ Rogers (2006)

A new book claims the word "chav" is helping to reignite class war. ❋ Unknown (2011)

His success in the United States has been won with How to Speak English, in which he discusses the meaning of the word "chav" with an American friend, and How To Be English, in which he gives step-by-step instructions on how to make a cup of tea. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But - whether people use the word "chav" or not - there's a deeply distorted, but entirely mainstream, view of class that must also be challenged. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Also, you can tell them ragheads that up here in chav heaven, Mohammmed and Allah make the fuckin tea, that's all. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

An average citizen would think that the area was having an extra bank holiday with all the people milling around all in chav uniform. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2007)

Perhaps we should ignore Iain and file the word chav with the likes of sandboy, gyp, toerag as common words of possibly rather offensive origins. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Katrina and I proving that being a chav is only 10% gold hoop earrings and 90% attitude ... ❋ Kisobel (2006)

John has a good point there, the US doesn't use the word chav at all, as far as I'm aware. ❋ Unknown (2007)

(Gopnik refers to a subculture characterised with sport clothes, short haircut, aggression and petty crime, in some areas of the xUSSR even mainstream. a bit similar to the British "chav" - translator.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

In one of their tiffs, the painter Marcello calls his vampy, gold-digging girlfriend Musetta a "chav" -- British slang for people with more money than brains and a taste for tacky bling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can never tell if the latest tough guy chav is maggie trying on a new sock or if its just a normal dumbass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not that i’m laughing at domestic violence mind you, it’s wrong and should be stamped upon, but it is frustrating when on the night you get (in chav speak) “I WANTS HIM CHARGED” followed the following week by “BUT I DU LOVES HIM REALLY AND WANTS TO DROP THE CHARGES”. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2007)

One one level, Jones has written a book about how the dread word "chav" came into being and how it has been bandied about without much thought. ❋ Unknown (2011)