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Bloke vs Chav - What's the difference?

bloke | chav |

As a verb bloke

is .

As a noun chav is

(uk|pejorative|offensive) a working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.

bloke

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) A man, a fellow; an ordinary man, a man on the street.
  • * 1930 , , 2006, Overlook Press, page 235,
    • The door flew open, and there was a bloke' with spectacles on his face and all round the spectacles an expression of strained anguish. A ' bloke with a secret sorrow.
  • * 1931 , , lyrics of 1930, 31 and 33 versions,
    • She messed around with a bloke named Smoky.
  • * 1958 , , page 281,
    • It was a Cockney bloke' who had never seen a cow till he came inside. Cragg said it took some ' blokes like that, and city fellows are the worse.
  • * 2000 , Elizabeth Young, Asking for Trouble , page 19,
    • As her current bloke was turning out better than expected, I didn't see much of her lately.
  • (UK) a man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
  • An anglophone man.
  • (Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
  • * 2000 May 5, Belinda Luscombe, “ Cinema: Of Mad Max and Madder Maximus”, Time :
    • ‘The Bloke'’ is a certain kind of Australian or New Zealand male. ¶ Most of all, the ' Bloke does not whinge.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * (ordinary man) sheila (New Zealand)

    Derived terms

    * blokey, blokeish

    References

    Australian slang

    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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