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Chav ( ) is a pejorative epithet used in Britain to describe a particular stereotype.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://web.archive.org/web/20120112002750/http://www.fabians.org.uk/publications/extracts/chav-offensive )〕 The word was popularised in the first decade of the 21st century by the British mass media to refer to an anti-social youth subculture in the United Kingdom. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines "chav" as an informal British derogatory, meaning "a young lower-class person who displays brash and loutish behaviour and wears real or imitation designer clothes".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/chav?q=chav )〕 The derivative chavette has been used to refer to females,〔 and the adjectives "chavish" and "chavtastic" have been used in relation to items designed for or suitable for use by chavs.〔 ==Etymology== Opinion is divided on the origin of the term. Chav may have its origins in the Romani word ''chavi'', meaning "child".〔 The word has existed since at least the 19th century; lexicographer Eric Partridge mentions it in his 1950 dictionary of slang and unconventional English, giving its date of origin as ca. 1860.〔 〕 The word in its current pejorative usage is recorded by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' as first used in a Usenet forum in 1998 and first used in a newspaper in 2002. By 2005 the term became widespread in its use as to refer to a type of anti-social, uncultured youth, who wear a lot of flashy jewellery, white trainers, baseball caps, and sham designer clothes; the girls expose a lot of midriff.〔 In his 2011 book, ''Chavs: the Demonization of the Working Class'', Owen Jones surmised that the word is an attack on the poor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13626046 )〕 In the 2010 book ''Stab Proof Scarecrows'' by Lance Manley, it was surmised that "chav" was an abbreviation for "council housed and violent". This is widely regarded as a backronym, a constructed acronym created to fit an existing word.〔 This interpretation of the word was used in a 2012 public statement by Rapper Plan B as he spoke out to oppose the use of the term. In 2013 linguist David Crystal said on BBC Learning English: People talk about "chav behaviour" or "chav insults" and that sort of thing. Oh, don't believe the popular etymologies that you read sometimes in the press and on websites. I saw one the other day, people said, "It's an acronym, 'chav', from 'council house and violent' - well, no, it isn't, that was made up in recent times. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「chav」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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