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Manymoves | 20:57 Wed 21st Aug 2013 | Phrases & Sayings
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A friend asked me what this means - can you help please?
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Avatar Image tonyav
Council House And Violent.
20:58 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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This explains it. It's a word, chav (not initials) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav
20:59 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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Chatham average, is another version.
20:59 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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I never knew that Tony!! Are you having us on?
21:00 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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Maggie, it's mentioned in my link.....
21:00 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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another possibility: The name may come from the Council House and Vauxhall acronym as the car of choice is the Vauxhall Nova. ...
21:00 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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No maggie I'm not having you on.
21:01 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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I see that ASBO is mentioned in the wiki link ~ does Barmaid know that her cat is a Chav?
21:01 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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boxtops is right, it's from Romany. All the rest is just folk etymology, all wrong, it doesn't stand for anything.

Posh isn't port out, starboard home either.
21:03 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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Oooohh took the test. I'm 30% chav!!!
21:05 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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Actually proper dictionaries are ambivalent about the origins of this word, most only saying that it is 'probably' or 'possibly' from Romany.
10:21 Fri 23rd Aug 2013

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