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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
savvy /ˈsavi/ informal
▶noun shrewdness. ▶verb (savvies, savvying, savvied) know or understand. ▶adjective (savvier, savviest) shrewd and knowledgeable.
– origin C18: orig. black and pidgin Engl. imitating Sp. sabe usted ‘you know’.



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