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People talk about "chav behaviour" or "chav insults" and that sort of thing. Oh, don't believe the popular etymologies that you read sometimes in the press and on websites. I saw one the other day, people said, "It's an acronym, 'chav', from 'council house and violent'"—well, no, it isn't, that was made up in recent times. [9]
talk flirtatiously with. Similar to American "come on to (someone)". chav (slang, often derogatory, used primarily in England) typically a nouveau riche or working class person, often of lowish intelligence, who wears sportswear or designer label (e.g. Burberry) copies, fake gold bling, and is a trouble-maker.
Pikey (/ ˈ p aɪ k iː /; also spelled pikie, pykie) [1] [2] is an ethnic slur referring to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people.It is used mainly in the United Kingdom and in Ireland to refer to people who belong to groups which had a traditional travelling lifestyle.
Chav, a British pejorative denoting class stereotype Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class , a 2011 book by British writer Owen Jones The Chavs , British musical group
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Talk Like A Brummie A wiki-based Birmingham dialect dictionary; ebrummie.co.uk Dr Steve Thorne's website devoted to the study of Brummie, including a dictionary, MP3 speech samples, discussion of his research on stereotypes, etc. Birmingham English sample using a test paragraph including most English sounds: George Mason University Speech ...
After speaking with hospital staff, detectives allegedly learned that the infant had arrived at the hospital by ambulance with "multiple skull fractures, brain bleeds, a fractured leg, and ...
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