savvy

"understand?"

Yarr, I was swabbin' the poop deck when me main mast took a tumble into Davy Jone's Locker; Avast, it was me own 'heartie, scurvy Sea-Dog Peg Leg who sivered me timbers; made 'im walk the bloody plank, Savvy?

by Capn' Jack Sparrow July 14, 2003

savvy

1. to understand something

2. knowledge

3. knowledgeable
(from spanish, Sabe, he knows)

I don't think you are as savvy on the subject as I am.

by Light Joker April 9, 2007

Savvy?

Do you understand what I just said?

Im highly succesful and you're not. Savvy?

by Paul Webb August 20, 2003

savvy

Technically means "Well-informed, perceptive, or shrewd"; in the summer of 2003, fans of "Pirates of the Carribean" adopted the meaning given to the word by Johnny Depp's Catain Jack.

Now used by PotC fans to mean, "Get it?"

"Shut up or I'll shut you up -- savvy?"

by Tak, the Hideous New Girl December 29, 2003

savvy

to be clued up is to be savvy. comes from the french verbs 'savoir faire', which means the 'know how'.

damn that boy is savvy.

by nobby January 2, 2005

Savvy

a noun or adjective indicating anything a high level of knowledge in some field (i.e. fashion); since The Pirates of the Caribbean came out, it has often been equated with "understand"

Regarding the etymology of the word, it is most likely another anglified French word, from the original "savoir," which means "to know." Like parley (also used in "Pirates"), which means "to speak," it was probably absorbed into the English vocabulary back when French was more of a global language.

He's very computer-savvy.

She's such a savvy dresser.

by Savster December 16, 2008

Savvy?

Got it? Do you understand? Use to REALLY get your point across.

If Dracula bit you you'd sue the garlic farmer, savvy?

by Vernon Dozier February 4, 2006