This is chavvy, that is chavvy. Fuck off with the use of chavvy

[SPsCliffingAllOverMN]

AIBU?

All I seem to see lately is the word chavvy to describe names, items, clothes etc that people don't like.

So far names that aren't Arlo or Benedict, are double barreled or start with a K are chavvy.

Using Nanna is chavvy.

Wearing character clothing (children) is chavvy.

Everything is fucking chavvy. It makes me wonder what people think chavvy means? Am I the only one who has noticed this?

[SPsCliffingAllOverMN]

Morris No I am not new. Guess I'm not as recognisable in my new disguise

[wonderingagain]

And fruit shoots and Greggs sausage rolls...
It's absolute pure snobbery in its finest form.

[Ceraunia]

"I've always thought it was used mainly by the working class to describe the so called underclass."

I've always thought similar.

[Fillyjonk75]

It's just a label. Ned, townie, hooray, sloane. It doesn't translate to working class.

[VinegarDrinker]

No, I think it's used by middle class people who are desperately bothered by keeping up with the Jones' and what so-and-so's neighbour's dog thinks of them.

[Fillyjonk75]

Fine to be snobby about low level criminality, thuggery and anti-social behaviour AFAIC.

[SPsCliffingAllOverMN]

What does AFAIC mean?

[Fillyjonk75]

As Far As I'm Concerned. Common internet acronym.

[VinegarDrinker]

How can you tell if someone has a tendency towards anti social behaviour or criminality from their name though?

[Bowlersarm]

I have never heard the expression 'ned' before in a derogatory way, is it regional. It was one of my boys names we didn't use in the end-should I be glad that we didn't??

[burberryqueen]

oh my son started to be known as 'chav' in about year 3, usually by those of the floppy surfer hairdo ....it was the short blonde hair that did it...it was just shorthand for 'poorer than us' in their tiny minds i think.

[VinegarDrinker]

And if you're disapproving of someone be cause of their criminality, why bring class into it?

[SPsCliffingAllOverMN]

I've seen it about but never asked.

Its a word that people use to try 'fit in' imo

[limitedperiodonly]

I'm not going to give my opinion on either of the names chosen by the Rooneys everlong because if I cheered or sneered it wouldn't affect them in a major way but it might hurt someone here who has chosen that name or something similar.

Similarly some MN-friendly names don't concur with my personal taste, just as I wouldn't give houseroom to many of the brands raved about on here.

I'm secure in my opinion but have enough self-awareness to know that sometimes expressing it makes you look like a cunt.

[wonderingagain]

I heard a pair of bankers use the term recently, it's not a working class term any more.

[Fillyjonk75]

You can't of course, anymore than say that Andrew or Peter might be fine upstanding members of the community.

But some names come with more baggage than others, you must admit. Tarquin is a hooray name, Chardonnay is a chav name.

[JenaiMorris]

I've heard plenty upper middleclass kids use it.

This particular brand of twattery knows no bounds when it comes to class.

[SPsCliffingAllOverMN]

Whats a hooray name? Haven't heard that term

[VinegarDrinker]

Given that most MNers who use the word chav tend (IME) to be on the Arlo side of the Arlo/Harlow division, I think any notion of it being used purely by working class people is erroneous.

[OwlLady]

I think she means a hurrah Henry, which is quite an old turn of phrase to describe someone posh - Tim nice but dim

[GoodbyePorkPie]

It's definitely used by the middle class, as a way of distancing themselves from perceived 'chaviness'.

[VinegarDrinker]

So what do you mean when you use chav Filly ? Working class aka "common"?

[Bowlersarm]

'Hooray Henry' = posh

[OwlLady]

Chav used to be very much a Southern word from my experience, is it not anymore?