Thesaurus talk:chav

Can we choose a better headword?

The entry is great. But, can we choose a better headword or phrase to use for the WikiSaurus entry ? Chav is probably going to a short lived favourite, we want something that will last.

Can't really see which would be better, except some long winded phrase "Fashionable lower class person". Uggh!. Maybe prole ??? Nah, that's got nothing to do with fashion, flashiness etc. Or am I misreading what Chav is anyway ??--Richardb 00:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Is the "definition" right ?

Is it a matter of poor taste, or cheap taste ? populist taste ? Is a chav attempting to be fashionable or well dressed, or are they dressing down If we change the defintion, it needs changing at chav too.--Richardb 00:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Are all these words really synonymous with [[[chav]]

Think a lot of plain insults of been put in, such as dumbo, suspect bogan isn't quite the same, doubt if prole is.

Need a tighter defintion of the headword, then some sort out to categorise as synonyms and see also.--Richardb 00:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Linkage to Roget

Anyone got any ideas where to link this to Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification ?--Richardb 00:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

My Roget's International Thesaurus, 6th edition, does not list this particular word, but it has some of the listed words in section 606, "The People".

The Pocket Roget's Thesaurus by Penguin has a similar list in its section 777, "Commoner". It does list "chav" in its section 111, "Youth", but most of that section relates to age, leaving the impression that this word primarily describes delinquent teens. I really' don't think that an obscure British slang term should serve as a headword for a class of terms that varies widely from one English speaking country to another. I propose moving these listings to WikiSaurus:the people. At some later time that page could be subdivided. Eclecticology 05:21, 27 February 2006 (UTC)