I Learned a New Word
October 01, 2005
Chavs, whether rich or poor, tend to favor gaudy jewelry and expensive-but-tacky clothes with big logos and to behave in a way that others find coarse or obnoxious.
Male chavs wear tracksuits and baseball caps; female chavs pull their hair tightly back in buns or ponytails, a style known as a "council house facelift," from the term for public housing.
Mr. Carroll has "King of Chavs" printed on his Mercedes, a car known in the newspapers as the Loutmobile (its license plate reads L111 OUT).
I like that word, and I'm going to use it. Hopefully I don't seem like the girl in Mean Girls, who was laughed at every time she used "fetch."
(Via Amber Taylor.)