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  • noun Geordie, pejorative Unruly youth; disobedient child or teenager.
  • noun Geordie, pejorative Unemployed youth with poor taste and dress sense.

Etymologies

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It is believed to come from nineteenth-century Romani charver ("prostitute").

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