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Chav vs Scaly - What's the difference?

chav | scaly |

As nouns the difference between chav and scaly

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 scaly is the scaly yellowfish, species: Labeobarbus natalensis.

As an adjective scaly is

covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.

chav

English

(wikipedia chav)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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:
    • His book concerns ‘chavs ’, a supposed underclass of ill-educated, fast-breeding, violent and amoral poor people currently plaguing Britain.

    Synonyms

    * See

    Derived terms

    * chavelling * chavette * chavster * chavtastic * chavving * chavvy

    References

    * "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 * scally

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    scaly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
  • Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
  • (dated, vulgar, or, South African) Mean; low.
    • a scaly fellow
  • Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.

    • Noun

    (wikipedia scaly) (Scaly Yellowfish) (Labeobarbus natalensis) (scalies)
  • (South Africa) The scaly yellowfish, .

    • Anagrams

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