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Savvy   /sˈævi/   Listen
Savvy

noun
1.
The cognitive condition of someone who understands.  Synonyms: apprehension, discernment, understanding.





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"Savvy" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Purvis, slowly restoring his gun to its holster, "but if this wolf of yours looks cross-eyed at me agin he'll hit the long trail that ain't got any end, savvy?" ...
— The Untamed • Max Brand
... my dear friend, the Papists got some good ideas too; and tha’ ’s one of ’em. You take my advice, and whenever you come across Uma or Fa’avao or Vigours, or any of that crowd, you take a leaf out o’ the priests, and do what I do. Savvy?” says he, repeated the sign, and winked his dim eye at me. “No, sir!” he broke out again, “no Papists here!” and for a long time entertained ...
— Island Nights' Entertainments • Robert Louis Stevenson
... explains it, of course it is all Tommy rot. Rummy thing 'ow a cram o' the Classicks do make yer a reglar crackpot. Dosser hain't no more genuine savvy, he hain't, than a 'aporth o' snuff; But he's up to the lips-like in Latin, and similar ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 26, 1891 • Various


Words linked to "Savvy" :   cotton on, knowing, tumble, insight, latch on, get wise, brainwave, appreciation, realisation, comprehension, realization, catch on, twig, grasping, brainstorm, dig, figure, get it, apprehend, get onto, intuit, self-knowledge, recognition, understand, hold, digest, smattering, hindsight


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