SAVVY
What does "SAVVY" mean?
Shrewdly informed, practically knowledgeable, and quick to understand a situation.
Meanings
- Having practical knowledge and shrewd understanding of a subject. A tech-savvy teenager set up the whole network in an hour. informal
- Practical know-how or shrewdness. It took real business savvy to turn the failing shop around. informal
- To understand or know (chiefly in dialect or pirate-speak). We do it my way - savvy? informal
Did you know?
- Savvy entered English through sailors' pidgin, garbled from the Spanish 'sabe usted?' ('do you know?') - which is why the old verb form 'savvy?' literally means 'do you understand?'
Word origin
From a creole and pidgin form of Spanish 'sabe (usted)?' meaning 'do you know?', from Latin 'sapere', 'to know, to be wise'.
Remember it
Double-V SAVVY - two sharp V's like a knowing person's raised, understanding eyebrows.
A little poem
Not the book-smart kind that quotes the rule,
but the street kind, learned by playing the fool.
couplet
Wordplay
- A sailor asked the Spaniard 'sabe?' and centuries later English answered 'savvy?' - the same question, just worse spelling.
What it teaches
Cleverness reads the book; savvy reads the room - and the room is where the book gets used.
Quick facts
What does SAVVY mean?
Shrewdly informed, practically knowledgeable, and quick to understand a situation.
Is SAVVY a valid word?
Yes — SAVVY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SAVVY?
SAVVY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does SAVVY come from?
From a creole and pidgin form of Spanish 'sabe (usted)?' meaning 'do you know?', from Latin 'sapere', 'to know, to be wise'.
What can SAVVY teach us?
Cleverness reads the book; savvy reads the room - and the room is where the book gets used.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.