Scally vs Chav - What's the difference?
scally | chav |
(pejorative) A rascal or miscreant, a scallywag.
(Northern England, especially in Manchester and Merseyside, pejorative) A jobless yob who has little or no education and is suspected of having committed some type of crime.
A flat cap or driving cap.
(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:
Chav is a related term of scally.
As nouns the difference between scally and chav
is that scally is a rascal or miscreant, a scallywag while chav is a working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.scally
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*chav
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(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
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* 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.