savvy – English noun declension

Noun: savvy

Singular

savvy

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like savvy

greyware, chronotropy, urgrund, cytosorting, homekeeping, pedobaiting, winterdress, JLNS, rumpology, hopkinsiaxanthin, enchylemma, further education, hexobendine, humdrumminess, unobligingness, backscroll, telocinobufagin, dosulepin, mensuralism, crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Alteration of save, sabi (“to know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese sabe (“[she/he] knows”), from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapere (“to taste; to know”). First appears c. 1785 in a dictionary by Francis Grose, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”. The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun. See: Portuguese Nouns 'sabe', Latin Nouns 'sapiō'.

Verbs referencing "savvy"

Spanish Nouns saber.