savvy
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Alteration of save, sabi (“know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese or Spanish 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.
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
savvy (comparative savvier, superlative savviest)
- (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
well-informed and perceptive
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Verb [edit]
savvy (third-person singular simple present savvies, present participle savvying, simple past and past participle savvied)
- (informal) to understand
Translations [edit]
(informal) to understand
Interjection [edit]
savvy?
- (informal) Do you understand?
Translations [edit]
(informal) do you understand?
Noun [edit]
savvy (uncountable)
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