What's the difference between chad and chav?

Chad


Definition:

  • (n.) See Shad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is happening not only in Brazil, but also in poorer cotton-producing countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin and Chad.
  • (2) Out of 4176 sera from asymptomatic adults originating from Chad, equatorial Guinea and Gabon tested for HIV-1 antibodies, 146 (3.5%) were positive by an enzyme immunoassay (EIA).
  • (3) Abaifouta, who is now president of the Hissène Habré victims association in Chad, spends his days campaigning on behalf of others like him; tireless in his efforts to bring justice, he has worked closely with Human Rights Watch and other groups.
  • (4) On Wednesday he will travel to Chad and Niger, whose troops help fight Boko Haram, said his spokesman, Garba Shehu.
  • (5) The aim is to secure the capital Bangui and the principal routes towards neighbouring Cameroon and Chad.
  • (6) In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
  • (7) It also was recovered from El Bur and one with similar microscopic characters has been seen in Chad and also in "territoire français des Afars et des Issas".
  • (8) Spurs made light of their lack of recognised strikers, with Chadli and Carroll doing the damage from wide midfield and helping them to a comfortable victory.
  • (9) Chad Abram runs for three yards for a first down, and FSU keep driving, and Winston throws again to Benjamin, 24 yards to the Auburn 29, and that's very much another first down.
  • (10) Funding for programmes in Chad has been particularly difficult to secure.
  • (11) The reservoir cannula Oxymizer Pendant (Chad-Therapeutics Inc.) is a nasal prong system incorporating a pendant reservoir which stores oxygen during expiration and delivers it as a bolus at the onset of inspiration.
  • (12) Nacer Chadli was another who might have won it for the home team but this was not a day for ruthlessness.
  • (13) Many young people have never known a time when Habré was in Chad – he fled the country shortly after Idriss Déby's forces progressed westwards from Iriba, and eventually sought refuge in Senegal.
  • (14) Chad Griffin, president of Human Rights Campaign, said, in a video posted on the organisation's website : "Years from now, we'll remember this election day as the most historic and the most important in the LGBT community."
  • (15) "We can say there is a crisis already, just by the number of cases of malnutrition which we're dealing with in hospitals from Chad to Burkina Faso to Mali," said Alvaro Pascual, Sahel desk officer for Action Against Hunger .
  • (16) Few Americans may have heard of Hissène Habré, but the US government was intimately involved in his rise to power in Chad in 1982.
  • (17) A regional military coalition of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon has claimed a series of major victories against Boko Haram since launching sweeping offensives against the terrorist group in February.
  • (18) Seattle had already opened the scoring, Chad Barrett converting from close range after Lovel Palmer was unable to clear a Kenny Cooper cross.
  • (19) The recently appointed captain Younès Kaboul, Emmanuel Adebayor, Mousa Dembélé and Nacer Chadli have also stayed at home.
  • (20) "Niger and Chad are the two countries with the largest crop deficits and there are already reports of a 90% reduction in cereal trades entering at some border posts in Nigeria," said Steve Cockburn of Oxfam West Africa .

Chav


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Starkey was in a heated discussion with Owen Jones, author of Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class, when he made his remarks during a discussion hosted by Emily Maitlis that also included the writer Dreda Say Mitchell.
  • (2) "What has happened is that the substantial section of the chavs that you wrote about have become black.
  • (3) A classic example, she believes, is Little Britain, in which David Walliams blacked up to play the character of Desiree, an obese black woman, and in which so-called "chavs" are ridiculed.
  • (4) But the one that really jumped out was of a chav-themed school disco: all these rosy-cheeked, foppish-looking public schoolkids dressed in baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits.
  • (5) Johnson tells the Radio Times that she didn't know that fat people ("classic chavs") could be hungry, until she saw their empty cupboards and their food budget (£3 a day for three people), and what it could and could not buy.
  • (6) I love her twice as hard for depriving a certain type of viewer of the chaotic chavs-on-tour spectacle they might have been expecting by taking entirely normal holidays and considering sound financial options.
  • (7) Discussion of the moral deficiency of benefit claimants has long been a substitute for political and economic debate, asylum-seeker is a dirty word, and "chav" is a word that no one wants applied to them.
  • (8) Jones's Chavs, Andy Merrifield's Magical Marxism, Laurie Penny's collection of her writing Penny Red and Nicholas Shaxson's exposé of tax havens Treasure Islands complete the lineup.
  • (9) Unusually for the comedy chav character – sadly every soap has one – Beth has been furnished with the requisite parenting skills to clock when something's up with her Craigy.
  • (10) The headline inside was "Future Bling of England"; the strapline screamed, "Wills wears Chav Gear in Army Snap."
  • (11) The shortlist Counterpower: Making Change Happen by Tim Gee Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It edited by Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Andy Merrifield Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent by Laurie Penny Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
  • (12) Class hatred has been siphoned off on to chavs, scroungers, benefit fraudsters, single mothers, all the new untouchables, so that the architects of austerity can justify their cruelty.
  • (13) It hardly ever has a scandal – the biggest was when a group of 12-year-olds got drunk on vodka – and it is reputed, probably wrongly, to have originated "chav" as a snooty term for the less eligible young men of the town ("Cheltenham average").
  • (14) And in popular culture, stereotypes that had been given new life in the 1980s eventually went nuclear: the mid-to-late New Labour period, let us not forget, was the era of Little Britain’s council-estate grotesque Vicky Pollard , the hairstyle maligned as the council-house facelift, and the bundling-up of council housing in the same dread category as “chavs” and welfare scroungers.
  • (15) Over two pages built around a snap of 30 trainee officers at Sandhurst, yesterday's Sun gleefully recounted how the heir to the throne "joined in the fun as his platoon donned chav-themed fancy dress to mark the completion of their first term".
  • (16) The “mix”, even when it happened, was a mix of the mutually hostile – search for the Greenwich Millennium Village online, to find a host of complaints by rich residents at the fact that sundry “chavs” and “scum” have ended up residing in their stunning luxury living solution.
  • (17) Now the people that bug me every day are cab drivers and chavs.
  • (18) His perusal of the entertainment currently offered to undergraduates has only confirmed that the so-called "chav bop" - a disco where you dress up as a working-class person - is an immovable fixture not only at public schools, but also throughout Oxford's colleges.
  • (19) They want us looking suspiciously and disdainfully in the direction of marginalised individuals; "chavs", "immigrants" and "gays," not in the direction of the institutions who actually damage our society – banks, corporations and the media.
  • (20) They want to see the back of these TV chavs so they can be left with their Poliakoff and their Potter (as well as their Big Brothers and Embarrassing Illnesses and all their "TV heaven", slumming it choices, obviously) and be served a TV which is essentially much more ... them.