Chav vs Yob - What's the difference?
chav | yob | Synonyms |
(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:
(pejorative, chiefly, British, Australia, NZ, slang) A person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness.
* 2010 , Paul R. Wilson, The Birthday of Eternity , page 209
Yob is a synonym of chav.
As nouns the difference between chav and yob
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 yob is a person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness.As an abbreviation YOB is
abbreviation of lang=en|year of birth birthyear.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
*yob
English
Noun
(en noun)- As we left the cemetary, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob' did much living by eighteen."
I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that '''''yob did plenty of living.”