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chutzpa

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chutz⋅pa

  [khoot-spuh, hoot-]
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–noun Slang.
1. unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
2. audacity; nerve.
Also, chutzpah, hutzpa, hutzpah.

Origin:
1890–95; < Yiddish khutspa < Aram ḥūṣpā
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chutzpa

noun
(Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity 
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