Oh, don't believe the popular etymologies that you read sometimes in the press and on websites. People talk about "chav behaviour" or "chav insults" and that sort of thing.
In 2013 linguist David Crystal said on BBC Learning English: This interpretation of the word was used in a 2012 public statement by rapper Plan B as he spoke out to oppose the use of the term. In the 2010 book Stab Proof Scarecrows by Lance Manley, it was surmised that "chav" was an abbreviation for " council housed and violent". In his 2011 book, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, Owen Jones argued that the word is an attack on the poor. The girls commonly wear clothing which exposes their midriff. By 2005 the term had become widespread in its use as to refer to a type of anti-social, uncultured youth, who wear excessive flashy jewellery, white athletic shoes, baseball caps, and sham designer clothes. The word in its current pejorative usage is recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary as first used in a Usenet forum in 1998 and first used in a newspaper in 2002. The word "chavvy" has existed since at least the 19th century lexicographer Eric Partridge mentions it in his 1950 dictionary of slang and unconventional English, giving its date of origin as c. "Chav" may have its origins in the Romani word "chavi", meaning "child".
Opinion is divided on the origin of the term.
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