Quote Originally Posted by xena View Post
"Prat" is what you are likely sitting on. No, not the chair, your backside.

"Chav" is a derogatory term for child, although it can be applied to persons of almost any age. Rough equivalent to "trailer trash" without the trailer. Usually inclined to criminality, relatively uneducated and either in low paying jobs or unemployed.

Both terms are British in origin, and likely unfamiliar to people who speak "American."
Well, thank goodness SOMEBODY cleared that up. I thought it was some kind of skin condition.

As for speaking American, I've lived my entire life as an honest, humble Canadian, and I don't think I've ever seen or heard those terms until today. Funny, they didn't cover that vocabulary in college when I took English 101. Heh...