savvy

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[edit] Etymology

Alteration of sabi know (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese sabe, he knows, from saber to know, from Latin sapere to be wise.

1785, as a noun, "practical sense, intelligence;" also a verb, "to know, to understand;" West Indies pidgin borrowing of French savez(-vous)? "do you know?" or Spanish sabe (usted) "you know," both from Vulgar Latin *sapere, from Latin sapere "be wise, be knowing" (see sapient). The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.

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[edit] Adjective

savvy (comparative savvier, superlative savviest)

  1. (informal) shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to savvy

Third person singular
savvies

Simple past
savvied

Past participle
savvied

Present participle
savvying

to savvy (third-person singular simple present savvies, present participle savvying, simple past and past participle savvied)

  1. To understand

[edit] Interjection

savvy

  1. A phrase to determine if something is understood.
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