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Savvy   /sˈævi/   Listen
Savvy

verb
(Written also savey)
1.
Get the meaning of something.  Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok.






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"Savvy" Quotes from Famous Books



... burly Australian farmer—pushed forward from the throng and touched his arm. "Look here, my son!" he said in an undertone. "You've no business here, and no call to fight whatever. Clear out of it—quick! Savvy? I'll cover ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell

... see, ma'am, we hev a sort of bargain they're to git certain ferryin'. I can't make 'em savvy how I took charge of you. If ...
— The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories • Owen Wister

... the doggone key! I was thinkin' of a feller I know'd down to Wyomin'. Tex—Tex—Smith, er some such of a name it was. I mistrusted you was him, an' mebbe you be fer all I know. I don't savvy none of you whatever." ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx



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



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