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Mencken, among others, claims that it is from French aufait meaning `mastery' presumably introduced via New Orleans.
Mencken line I've used before: "For ever problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, plausible and wrong!"
Mencken ( The American Language , Supplement Two, p.
In the same piece, he traces savvy to Portuguese, which might be correct, but Mencken's American Language derives it from the Spanish sabe . Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .
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).