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trev en · NOUN · etymology 1
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Etymology
New Zealand slang sense: from characters named Trev in a television comedy of the 1970s. See Fred Dagg.
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(New-Zealand, slang) A farm assistant or other rural worker; an ordinary country bloke.
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(UK, slang) An urban lower-class youth.
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chav
wikipedia: Fred Dagg
trev en · NOUN · etymology 2
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of tref (“ancient hamlet”)
This fixes for us the number of homesteads or tyddyns in the trev.
1890, Frederic Seebohm, The English Village Community, page 204:
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