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Thursday, October 12, 2006
Etymology of Chav
Well, whaddya know! Hee hee...public school girls under suspicion, (and probably rightly so, unless Ms Tuck has radically changed the institution in recent years!)
2 comments:
I had heard that it stood for Council Housed And Violent.
Wikipedia tells a different story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav
I am more inclined to believe the chavo theory.
"Chavalo" is a slang word in Portugal. Like in: "Fónix, chavalo, mas 'tás t'a passar ou quê?!"
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