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In this sense it dates from the 1870s, and, of the several conjectural etymologies, those that link it with the Spanish vaquero or the English Jacky Raw seem at least possible.
That is not for the want of speculative comment by those who offered largely folk etymologies, which readers of VERBATIM will recall so sorely vexed Walter W. Skeat.
Rybakin's etymologies are mostly quite sound and accord with current scholarship.
One might think, given the emphasis on encyclopedic information, that etymologies of place names would be included, but they are not.
Finally, concerning the etymology of savvy , Mr. Lawrence should not believe everything he reads in sources such as Mencken's American Language . In fact, I checked in another dozen English dictionaries, and they all state that savvy comes from Spanish sabe . These dictionaries are simply wrong on this point (as they are, I might add, on many other etymologies).