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savvy

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈsæv.i/(UK)

Definition of savvy

3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (informal)Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
    “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.”
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adj

  1. (informal)Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
    “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.”

verb

  1. (informal)To understand.
    “He's probably a perfect technician as a surgeon, but he knows you get only what you grab. Think of the years it's taken me to learn what he savvied all the time!”

noun

  1. (informal, uncountable)Shrewdness.

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Etymology

Alteration of save, sabi (“to know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese sabe (“[she/he] knows”), from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapere (“to taste; to know”). First appears c. 1785 in a dictionary by Francis Grose, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”. The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.

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