"Savvey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tell me what happened," she asked, knowing well that a command would only elicit a stolid "No savvey." Put as a favor, or ...
— Down the Mother Lode • Vivia Hemphill
... bewilderment, trying to grasp his master's meaning. "My no savvy, sah," he said, shaking ...
— Stand By! - Naval Sketches and Stories • Henry Taprell Dorling
... this true of the fourth class men in the "wooden" or lowest sections. Most of these men knew that, if they succeeded in staying on at all, it would be by a very small margin indeed. Even the men in the "savvy sections," with the highest marks of their class, were eager to come out as well as possible in the ...
— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... bukkos. An' I pookered lengis, "Mi-ranis, I putch tute's cammoben; I didn't jin tute sus acai." But yeck pre the wavers penned mandy boot kushti cammoben, "Chichi, mor dukker your-kokero; we just welled alay acai from the ker to lel a bitti bath." An' she savvy'd sa kushto, but they all jalled avree glan mandy sar the bavol, an' tute was hatchin' pash a maudy sar ...
— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland
... once, and if the lady takes you in tow in Benton you'll have the world by the tail as long as it holds. She moves with the top-notchers; she's a knowing little piece—no offense. Her and me are good enough friends. There's no brace game in that deal. I only aim to give you a steer. Savvy?" And he winked. "You're out to ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin |
