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chutz·pa    Audio Help   [khoot-spuh, hoot-] Pronunciation Key
–noun Slang.
1.unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
2.audacity; nerve.
Also, chutzpah, hutzpa, hutzpah.


[Origin: 1890–95; < Yiddish khutspa < Aram ḥūṣ]
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chutz·pah also hutz·pah    Audio Help   (KHŏŏt'spə, hŏŏt'-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Utter nerve; effrontery: "has the chutzpah to claim a lock on God and morality" (New York Times).


[Yiddish khutspe, from Mishnaic Hebrew ḥuṣpâ, from ḥāṣap, to be insolent; see ḥṣp in Semitic roots.]

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chutzpah 
1892, from Yiddish khutspe "impudence, gall" from Heb. hutspah. The classic definition is that given by Leo Rosten: "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."

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chutzpah

noun
(Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity [syn: chutzpa

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chutzpah [(khoot-spuh, hoot-spuh)]

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.”


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