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verb (savvies, savvying, savvied)
- To understand
adjective (savvier, savviest)
- (informal) shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
Translations: - French: futé (informal), malin
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Etymology: Alteration of sabi know (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from saberPortuguese, sabe, he knows, from saber to know, from sapere to be wise.1785, as a noun, "practical sense, intelligence;" also a verb, "to know, to understand;" West Indies pidgin borrowing of savoirFrench, savez(-vous)? "do you know?" or saberSpanish, sabe (usted) "you know," both from - sapere, from sapere "be wise, be knowing" (see sapient). The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.
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