These are words in the English language which potentially come from Romani. chav (wikt:chav) – an anti-social youth (from chavi "child") cosh (wikt:cosh) – a weapon, truncheon, baton (from košter "stick") cove (wikt:cove) – British-English colloquial term meaning a person or chap (from kova "that person") cushty (wikt:cushty) – very good dick (wikt:dick) – detective (potentially from dik "look", "see" and by extension "watch") gadjo (masc) or gadji (fem) – a non-Romani nark (wikt:nark) – a police informer (from nāk "nose") pal (wikt:pal) – friend (from phral "brother") posh (wikt:posh) – fancy, upper-class (possibly from a Romani term for money) Romanipen – the spirit of being Romani, "Romani-ness" shiv (wikt:shiv) – an improvised knife or similar weapon (from chivomengro "knife") wonga (wikt:wonga) – Cockney slang for money (from angar "coal")
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