Chav vs Redneck - What's the difference?
chav | redneck |
(UK, pejorative, offensive) A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.
* 2011 , ‘Giving the poor a good kicking’, The Economist , 18 Jun 2011:
(slang, pejorative) An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any gender
(slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
(UK, archaic) The nickname given to Roman Catholics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Redneck is a synonym of chav.
As nouns the difference between chav and redneck
is that chav is a working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle while redneck is an uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any gender) of the rural Southern US.chav
English
(wikipedia chav)Noun
(en noun)- His book concerns ‘chavs ’, a supposed underclass of ill-educated, fast-breeding, violent and amoral poor people currently plaguing Britain.
Synonyms
* SeeDerived terms
* chavelling * chavette * chavster * chavtastic * chavving * chavvyReferences
*"Good news for chavs: they may be cool people soon"by Robin Young, The Times , 2004-10-19, accessed 2005-04-15 *
World Wide Words: chav, by Michael Quinion, accessed 2005-04-15 *
Posting by "Quizmonster" in The Answer Bank, 2005-02-22, accessed 2005-04-15 *
Posting by "Dick Jones" in FrizzyLogic, 2004-03-19, accessed 2005-04-15 *
"The Chavs are Coming", The Irish Times 2005-03-23, accessed 2005-04-15 * Bragg, M. 'The Adventure of English', London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2003: 26.
See also
* charva * mush * ned * pikey * scallyAnagrams
*redneck
English
Noun
(en noun)Country Music Lyrics New Country Tunes) of the rural Southern US.
West Virginia Division of Culture and History