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O.K I am going to clear this one up once and for all My grand parants were Romani Gypsies from kent and they always used the word. it means kid it comes from chavo which means son and chey means daughter, Kent has always had a high level of Romani and it is like so many words in kent which have come from Romani. kids in kent heard it and they would call each other chav or chavi like saying "alright boy" you would say "alright chav/chavi" (where as the correct term for a non romani boy is a raklo) and because the Romani started mixing more with gorgers and being forced into houses this word became more and more common amongst the gorgers .
now the second part of this comes from fashion the gypsy kids always looked very smart we would wear smart clothes and jewellry what you gorgers call chav fashion as in lots of gold and brand name clothes is just a reflection of younge romani kids (chavis)wearing smart clothes and lots of gold and gorgers trying to copy it. So when people in the north east claim to have made this word up or anywhere else it is rubbish because it never meant to mean what you think chav means now, it means a young romani child and later became a term which young kids used to address each other and then later was used to describe any teenager of a working class background who ever said it was scottish is wrong and who ever said it is northern is also wrong My great grandparants travelled all over britain in there traveling days and this word would of been heard all over the u.k but I would be sure it was picked up first in the south east when the kids heard the Romani use it and started calling each other chav this is the best answer you will get because it comes from the grys mui, also when people in the north east say charva comes from the romani for prostitute this is also incorrect because the poggerdi chib (english romani) word for prostitute as i always remember it was loovni.
I could tell you more engliush romani words if you want as i still remember alot of them

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O.K I am going to clear this one up once and for all My grand parants were Romani Gypsies from kent and they always used the word. it means kid it comes from chavo which means son and chey means daughter Kent has always had a high level of Romani and it is like so many words in kent which have come from Romani. kids in kent heard it and they would call each other chav or chavi like saying "alright boy" you would say "alright chav/chavi" (where as the correct term for a non romani boy is a raklo) and because the Romani started mixing more with gorgers and being forced into houses this word became more and more common
amongst the gorgers .
now the second part of this comes from fashion the gypsy kids always looked very smart we would wear smart clothes and jewellry what you gorgers call chav fashion as in lots of gold and brand name clothes is just a reflection of younge romani kids (chavis)wearing smart clothes and lots of gold and gorgers trying to copy it. So when people in the north east claim to have made this word up or anywhere else it is rubbish because it never meant to mean what you think chav means now, it means a young romani child
and later became a term which young kids used to address
each other and then later was used to describe any teenager of a working class background who ever said it was scottish
is wrong and who ever said it is northern is also wrong My great grandparants travelled all over britain in there traveling days and this word would of been heard all over the u.k but I would be sure it was picked up first in the south east when the kids heard the Romani use it and started calling each other chav this is the best answer you will get because it comes from the grys mui, also when people in the north east say charva comes from the romani for prostitute this is also incorrect because the poggerdi
chib (english romani) word for prostitute as i always remember it was loovni.
I could tell you more engliush romani words if you want as i still remember alot of them