Savvy

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vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)



          1.    懂;知曉



vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)



          1.    懂



n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    理解能力;悟性





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



savvy (adj., n., v.)   

 

is a transitive and intransitive verb of pidgin (洋涇濱英語) origin meaning "understand," 



an adjective meaning "smart, wise," and a noun meaning "intelligence, good sense."



All these senses are slang, but the noun and the adjective appear sometimes in Standard Informal and Semiformal writing, as well as at Conversational levels.