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▪ I. charver, n.1 slang (Brit. and Irish English). Chiefly depreciative.
Brit. |ˈtʃɑːvə|, U.S. |ˈtʃɑrvər|
Forms: 18– charver, 19– charva
[Origin uncertain. Apparently related to later charver v.
Many commentators regard charver v. as the primary word in the group, although it is first attested considerably later; this is not implausible, as quot. 1846 is the sole example of the noun which has been identified from before the mid 20th cent. See further discussion at charver v.]
A promiscuous woman; a prostitute. Hence: women considered sexually; (also) an act of sexual intercourse with a woman.
1846Swell's Night Guide 60 An out-an-outer she is to go and no mistake, a rattling piece and a stunning charver. 1956B. Behan Quare Fellow i. 21 We trucking round in chase of charver. 1971T. Murphy Whistle in Dark i. 5 Don't mind selling but person'lly wouldn't be wasting good money on no English charver. 2000J. J. Connolly Layer Cake 211, I need a good charver, a bitta freestyle, a good bunk-up.
▪ II. charver, n.2 Eng. regional (north-east.). slang.
Brit. |ˈtʃɑːvə|, U.S. |ˈtʃɑrvər|
Forms: 19– charva, 19– charver, 19– chava
[‹ Angloromani chava man, child, boy > n.).]
A young person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour and the wearing of designer-style clothes (esp. sportswear); usually with connotations of a low social status. Cf. chav n.
1997Re: Anyone in Northeast? in uk.people.teens (Usenet newsgroup) 12 June Well, they're [sic] aren't real charvas then. Charvas hate hippies, don't they? Jenni got beaten up by a gang of them at The Green on saturday. 2001Herald & Post (Newcastle) (Nexis) 25 Jan. 2 The seafront is full of ‘charvas’. 2003A. Nayak Race, Place & Globalization v. 93 With their pineapple ponytails, heavy jewellery, trainers and tracksuit-tops, Charver girls..could negotiate new, urban femininities that made a mockery of the stereotype of the passive wallflower. 2005Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 27 July 10 Last week, I discovered that someone I know has an anti-social behaviour order imposed upon him. He is not the king charver from the local pub, nor the unruly teenage son of a neighbour.
▪ III. charver, v. slang (Brit. and Irish English).
Brit. |ˈtʃɑːvə|, U.S. |ˈtʃɑrvər|
Forms: 18 chauver, 19– charva, 19– charver
[Origin uncertain. Compare earlier charver n.1, which is apparently related, and from which the verb could be derived, although most have assumed that the opposite is the case (in spite of the chronology of the first attestations, which may well be accidental). Both words have been identified as part of Polari slang (compare I. Hancock Shelta and Polari in P. Trudgill (ed.) Language in the British Isles (2003) 384–403), although they may not have originated as part of it.
Perhaps compare Italian chiavare to have sex with, spec. slang use of chiavare to fasten, fix (ultimately > n.); the initial affricate could perhaps reflect an Italian regional (perhaps Genoese) form. Alternatively, perhaps compare French chauffeur to warm, to heat (see chafe v.) or English chafe v. (compare the English regional (northern) forms chauve, chawve, chorve, etc.), or perhaps compare either Spanish chafar (probably ultimately of imitative origin) or North African French chafer both in sense ‘to rumple, crush’. (There is apparently no evidence for a supposed Romani verb *charvo to interfere with.)]
trans. To have sexual intercourse with; (also) to spoil, ruin.
1889 charvering adj. and n. at Derivatives1934P. Allingham Cheapjack xv. 189 ‘Charvered’..is a common enough expression among grafters, and often used when one worker ‘charvers’ another or in other words spoils his pitch. 1954F. Norman Stand on Me v. 60 He made quite a study of brasses and always charvered the worst looking old bags he could find. 1962R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 26 Marchmare walloping a strange bird he later charvered. 1969J. Fabian & J. Byrne Groupie (1970) v. 39, I like to charver birds, but I never do. 2006A. C. Murphy Steel Sky i. 18 I'd have gone mad if your dull-witted mother was the only woman I ever charvered.
Derivatives. charvering adj. and n. (formerly usu. in form chauvering) (a) adj. designating a prostitute (in charvering donna, charvering moll); (b) n. sexual intercourse.
1889A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 239 *Chauvering donna (theatrical), a prostitute. Chauvering is cant for sexual intercourse. 1889A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 239 Chauvering moll (old cant), a prostitute. 1954F. Norman Stand on Me xv. 175, I would have certainly gone back and flattened her against the very wall that she did all her one sided charvering. 1990Bookseller 30 Mar. 1094/1 There's a fair old bit of charvering, as it happens, but you never get to see what's what because someone's gone and cut the smut out. |
