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Originally Posted by 1875
Chav(vy) is indeed a romany word, and is widely used right down the East coast of the British Isles. Mention is made of it in Peter Kerr's Thistle Soup about East Lothian and I stumbled on this site just now Gaj.....
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Cheers Mark
Like a few other words that have travelled the Eastern areas of the country. One that might be cited is 'radge', which I have heard in Nottingham as 'he's geting a bit radgy', (disagreeable and bed-tempered). Slightly archaic here these days though.
In my memory of playing against a lot of lads in football leagues out in the Newark district, Chav or Chavvy was usually used in a matey way rather than the seemingly more widely used derogative manner