Inflected forms: sav·vi·er, sav·vi·est Informal Well informed and perceptive; shrewd: savvy Washington insiders.
NOUN:
Practical understanding or shrewdness: a banker known for financial savvy.
TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: sav·vied (svd), sav·vy·ing, sav·vies (svz) To understand; comprehend.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Spanish sabe (usted), (you) know, from saber, to know, from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *sapre, from Latin sapere, to be wise. See sep- in Appendix I.
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