maven
"Maven" comes to us from the Hebrew, by way of Yiddish. In Hebrew, "mavin" means "he knows". So a "maven" is someone in the know, a real expert, or maybe sometimes just a self-styled expert.
"You need to decide on a new computer? Talk to my cousin, he just graduated from CalTech, he's a real maven."
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"Okay, so you read one magazine article, what does that make you, a maven?"
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"Okay, so you read one magazine article, what does that make you, a maven?"
maven by Sharon Ann September 25, 2005
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