savvy
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[edit] Etymology
Alteration of 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.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Adjective
savvy (comparative savvier, superlative savviest)
- (informal) shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
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[edit] Translations
well-informed and perceptive
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[edit] Verb
savvy (third-person singular simple present savvies, present participle savvying, simple past and past participle savvied)
- (informal) To understand
[edit] Interjection
savvy
- (informal) Do you understand?
