So I was looking on the football365 forum earlier today, and Geoffrey brought something over, and said “When you’re quite done looking at porn Mr White” To which I replied they were just some Chavvy girls, and were fully clothed, thus not constituting porn in anyway shape or form, he asked where the origins of the word came from. After a little digging I found one or two answers on Wikipidia, but not till Lee had given a full description. Geoffreys reply to this description was awesome…
The convo went a little something like this…
Lee: Chavs tend to be the young lads, with Hoodies on, tracky bottoms tucked into their socks, fake jewellery that has been bought from Argos, getting our of a Subaru with their caps on crooked or back to front.
Geoffrey: Like Craig you mean??
Cue me and Lee laughing quite hard
Anyway seems there are one or two different ideas as to where it originated.
- Foreign language - A possible etymology for “chav” is that it derives from the Romani word “chavi”, meaning a child.[4] Related words derived from the same source include “charva” meaning prostitute (used in north-east England in a similar sense). In modern Spanish “chaval”, “chavo” or “chavón” means “lad” (eg: El Chavo, a Mexican television comedy whose principal character is a street orphan).[5] The term “chavvy”, for child or young person, is known to have migrated from Romani into the local dialects of Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire in the post-war years, coming into common usage in the late 1940s
- It has been suggested that pupils at Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Cheltenham College used the word to describe the younger men of the town (”Cheltenham Average”)
- Many folk etymologies have sprung up around the word. These include backronyms such as “Council Housed And Violent” and “Council House Adult Vermin”
