Savvy vs Aficionado - What's the difference?
savvy | aficionado |
(informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(informal) to understand
(informal) Do you understand?
Shrewdness
A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting); a fan or devotee.
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As nouns the difference between savvy and aficionado
is that savvy is shrewdness while aficionado is {{cx|obsolete|lang=en}} An amateur bullfighter.As an adjective savvy
is shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.As a verb savvy
is to understand.As an interjection savvy
is do you understand.savvy
English
Adjective
(er)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
Synonyms
* cannyVerb
Interjection
Noun
(-)aficionado
English
Noun
(en-noun)- To the "closet" taxonomist and aficionado of nomenclatural exercises, such emphasis may seem an intrusion.