Meaning

noun a member of an uncivilized people

noun a cruelly rapacious person

verb attack brutally and fiercely

origin* As an English surname of Norman origin, from the adjective savage. Compare Sauvage. * As an Irish surname, from ó Sabháin, also Anglicized as O'Savin; see Savin. * As a Jewish and Slavic surname, Americanized from Savich, Serbo-Croatian Savić. See Savic.

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