Originally posted by Quiero Mota
What the f*ck is "burberry clothing", ese?

And what the f*ck is a "chav"?

I'm a Chav it means child in Roma Gypsy it's a racist and classist term that has been corrupted by the media in the UK and now lots of people use it who don't know its true meaning.

"But it seems that the word is from a much older underclass, the gypsies, many of whom have lived in that area for generations. Chav is almost certainly from the Romany word for a child, chavi, recorded from the middle of the nineteenth century. We know it was being used as a term of address to an adult man a little later in the century, but it hasn’t often been recorded in print since and its derivative chav is new to most people.
Other terms for the class also have Romany connections; another is charver, Romany for prostitute. Yet another is the deeply insulting pikey, presumably from the Kentish dialect term for gypsy that was borrowed from turnpike, so a person who travels the roads."

http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-cha2.htm