Green’s Dictionary of Slang

povvie n.

a poor person, also attrib.

Raconteur 4-5 43: ‘You Povvies make me sick. Happy to live in shit, off my taxes’ Jess couldn’t help it: ‘You call this living?’.
Google Groups: uk.media.dvd 23 Aug. 🌐 They made the chav culture virtually single handed anyway, they also introduced the ‘povvie check’ to the (unwashed) masses.