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cleverness
English
Etymology
clever +? -ness
Noun
cleverness (countable and uncountable, plural clevernesses)
- The property of being clever.
- Something clever, or done cleverly.
Related terms
- cunning
- acumen
Translations
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savvy
English
Etymology
Alteration of save, sabi (“know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese or Spanish sabe (“[she/he] knows”), from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapi? (“to be wise”).
1785, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”; West Indies pidgin borrowing of French savez(-vous) (“do you know”), Portuguese (você) sabe (“you know”) or Spanish (usted) sabe (“you know”), all from Vulgar Latin *sapere, from Latin sapere (“be wise, be knowing”) (see sapient). The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sæ.vi/
- Rhymes: -ævi
Adjective
savvy (comparative savvier, superlative savviest)
- (informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
- 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.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]
Synonyms
- canny
Derived terms
- tech-savvy
Related terms
Translations
Verb
savvy (third-person singular simple present savvies, present participle savvying, simple past and past participle savvied)
- (informal) To understand.
Translations
Noun
savvy (uncountable)
- (informal) Shrewdness.
References
- “savvy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Chinese Pidgin English
Alternative forms
- sarby
Etymology
From Macau Pidgin Portuguese ?? (saat3 baai3), ?? (saat3 bi6), ?? (saan2 baai3), from Portuguese sabe.
Verb
savvy
- know
- understand
References
- Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 108: “Savvy: (Portuguese) know; understand; No savvy ? Do you not understand ?”
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