to note a lot of threads about things or people being ' Chavvy' recently

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Its like someone's fetish.

Its a grim judgy expression that has no place on this board IMNSHO

Ive just posted on another forum and used the words ‘sun reader’ yay

There was a thread a while back that showed people use the word to mean completely different things. It doesn't have a clear definition of what it actually means because people were saying it means this, it means that... etc etc. There was much discussion about where the word came from and how the insult started and whether it's offensive or not.
So you can't say "everyone knows what it means" at all because it seems to have massively different meanings around the UK.
Edit : and the replies is hadn't read before writing this are clearly saying the same.....

Mate
im so not a troll. And if you thought I was you should report not put it on the thread.

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Sorry but a grown woman saying mate is a bit chavvy.
Im as low class as it gets because I had my first kid at 16 and lived in a hostel but I’ve never been called a chav because I don’t act or talk like one.

When people say chav they’re usually talking about young thugs there are also rich ones rebelling against Mumsy and dadsy nothing to do with being poor or not

Being chavvy is not the same as being in poverty. Many things classed as chavvy are expensive, eg:
Certain designer brands
Blingy Jewellery
Excessive fillers/brows/lashes
AI holidays to Dubai
Modified cars
Crushed velvet sofas

In my mind, chavvy equates to what my Mum would call ‘common as muck’ 😆

No
It looks down and ignorant, violent and anti social behaviour

Its a shame, because I remember "chavvy" when used to be a term of endearment.

Now it's come to mean Council Housed And Violent, replacing the use of "common". I cringe for anyone who uses these terms.

Crushed velvet sofas 🤣

Live laugh love on the wall behind it!

There are plenty of chav parents at DS private school. It does not mean poor.

tbh, grim and judgy are probably the first 2 SEO keywords for the aibu board.

While often misused as an acronym (e.g., "Council Housed And Violent"), it is not a true acronym and likely derives from the Romani word chavi, meaning child.

No it doesn't

The fact that some people are using it to describe violent antisocial behaviour and some are using it to describe someone who has Pandora bracelets or a crushed velvet sofa only makes it obvious that it means “low class” and that means something different to different people.
It’s very clear that whether they admit it or not, many people conflate the different definitions. They assume if someone looks a certain way that they act a certain way.
That is prejudice and it’s offensive.

Disagree. I don’t think the term has anything to do with wealth (or lack of). You can be poor as a church mouse and not the least bit chavvy. Or conversely, filthy rich and chavvy as fuck.

In fact, I’d argue you need a reasonable amount of spending money to achieve true chav status.

I'm working class. I'm neither a chav nor offended by the word.

So you actually know do you , what this word means and where it stems from??

I think not judging by how you have written your post.

Well to us wc peasants it's not really about poverty, it's a lifestyle, think KP you could give her a hundred million £s and she would still be chavvy. Maybe these MC people need to educate themselves 😂

Burberry items are expensive. They’re also seen as chavvy. Baseball caps are chavvy especially when worn indoors. I’m working class by the way.

I would say it’s nothing to do with poverty and everything to do with questionable taste despite your background.

Yes, but if you are middle class with that particular type of questionable taste , it means Ew, they dress/ act like a working class person and if you are WC, it means you are the wrong kind of WC person.

I agree. There was an episode of ‘Rich House, Poor House’ last weekend and the rich couple lived in a £12M apartment in central London. It was hideously tacky. He was all Versace tiles and comedy Turkey teeth.

And OP I would disagree with you that most poor people are chavvy. You’re showing your own bias there.

I would also disagree that most poor people are chavvy.

I grew up poor, surrounded by poor people, none of them chavvy, just normal people living a very modest lifestyle and struggling to get by.

Chavs had a lot more money than us! It cost a lot to adorn yourself in tacky shit. Also, the 'tragedeigh' type names are the mainstay of chavs. All the poor people I grew up with called their kids normal plain names like John or Sarah.

If you think Chavvy is a synonym for poor then you're the biased one who thinks quite poorly if poor people!

I’ve never come across that reference to the working class. But truth be told not many (if any) person I know would refer to anyone as being chavvy. It’s just so ugly and I’d think really badly of them.