" savvy "

 [ "savvy" ]

1: "understand?"

  * e.g.,  ... 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? 

 [ "savvy" ]

1:  to understand something

  * e.g.,  ... I don't think you are as savvy on the subject as I am. 

 [ "savvy" ]

2:  knowledge

 [ "savvy" ]

3:  knowledgeable

 [ "savvy" ]

4: (from spanish, Sabe, he knows)

 [ "savvy" ]

1: 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.

  * e.g.,  ... "Shut up or I'll shut you up -- savvy?" 

 [ "savvy" ]

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

 [ "savvy" ]

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

  * e.g.,  ... damn that boy is savvy. 

 [ "savvy" ]

1: Commonly related to pirates. Meaning to undertsand, or to grasp a concept.

  * e.g.,  ... "Im Cap'n Jack Sparrow. Savvy?" 

 [ "savvy" ]

1: savvy (sav-ve)adj. To comprhend to understand. To make sure of something. Something sexy. Tod escribe as cool or sophisticated. Sexiest word to come from Johnny Depps lips.

  * e.g.,  ... "so why dont you return the favor, savvy?"  

 [ "savvy" ]

1: asking if the second person agrees

  * e.g.,  ... Captin Jack Sparrow: "im gonna shoot you now, savvy?" 

 [ "savvy" ]

2: understand?

 [ "savvy" ]

1: I'm pretty sure it comes from the spanish word "sabes". It was slurred together to form "savvy". It means "Understand?"

  * e.g.,  ... "It's a matter of lesuire. Savvy?" 

 [ "savvy" ]

1: Do you understand? To understand.

  * e.g.,  ... "She knows about going on holiday!" 

 [ "savvy" ]

1: Well If Cap'n Jack Sparrow says it it meand "I'm bloody Sexy" but if it's anything else, than it's "Allright?"

  * e.g.,  ... I'm Captin Jack Sparrow, Savvy?