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chutzpah

/ ˈxʊtspə /

noun

chutzpah

Yiddish term for courage bordering on arrogance, roughly equivalent to “nerve” (in the slang sense): “It took a lot of chutzpah to make such a controversial statement.”

C20: from Yiddish

I lack the wherewithal to start my own competing certifying board, to say nothing of the chutzpah.

These bohemian joints were so uncompromising that they reminded Moss “you needed chutzpah to live in New York,” he says.

Dad reached the heights of chutzpah when he went to the theater with a friend one night and spotted the actress Gwen Verdon.

They had the chutzpah to send me a test email from an outlook.com address.

She brings her own tea bags in a neat Ziploc bag, and I am mildly awed at her preparedness and chutzpah.

It was his firm desire to bring some chutzpah into the all too predictable and dreary cuisine on this part of the continent.

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