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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chutzpah
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It took a lot of chutzpah to quit your job like that.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the resolution to this scene is exquisite in its chutzpah and farcical bad taste.
▪ And who else would have the happy chutzpah to seem so natural doing it?
▪ But you can't help admiring the chutzpah.
▪ Had word of Hanson's interest leaked to the market, the stockbroker's chutzpah could almost have bankrupted the firm.
▪ His reputation, along with luck and chutzpah, helped him get unique access to Ames.
▪ His was a lifetime spent on the borderline between chutzpah and hubris.
▪ No one else has the chutzpah to claim that.
▪ This is chutzpah on rye bread with a side order of pickles and sour cream.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chutzpah

chutzpa \chutzpa\, chutzpah \chutzpah\n. [Yiddish khutzpa.] aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; gall; as, he had the chutzpah to question my decision. [Also spelled hutzpa, and hutzpah.]

Syn: audacity, audaciousness.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chutzpah

also hutzpah, 1892, from Yiddish khutspe "impudence, gall." from Hebrew 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."

Wiktionary
chutzpah

n. (context slang English) Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion;

WordNet
chutzpah

n. (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity [syn: chutzpa, hutzpah]

Wikipedia
Chutzpah

Chutzpah ( or ) is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. The Yiddish word derives from the Hebrew word , meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity". The modern English usage of the word has taken on a broader meaning, having been popularized through vernacular use in film, literature, and television. The word is sometimes interpreted—particularly in business parlance—as meaning the amount of courage, mettle or ardor that an individual has.

Chutzpah (disambiguation)

Chutzpah is a Hebrew term for audacity or nerve.

Chutzpah may also refer to:

  • ¡Chutzpah!, an album by The Wildhearts
  • Chutzpah Magazine, a national print and online magazine; see Chinese science fiction
  • Chutzpah!, a book by Alan Dershowitz

Usage examples of "chutzpah".

He had no idea who the commander of the hos­tiles might be, but if the son of a bitch had chutzpah enough to attack Mamud this close to Baghdad, then he was probably a pretty tough bastard.

It included Madame LaSalle-Guerinot, who was looking pissed as all get out, the colonel, a couple of senior police officers and Mike, who had forced his way in through sheer chutzpah.

We found a couple of seats on the aisle and, as we settled in,I wondered why he'd decided to put me on the spot like this I've got a certain amount of chutzpah but I didn't have the brass neck to sit through this particular movie in the company of Jesus without feeling uncomfortable.

Here, now, was the make-or-break point for his scheme, and all the persiflage, verbal misdirection, charm, chutzpah, and bullshit he could muster weren't going to be enough, not even tied up with a big blue bow.

To do it in this setting displays a certain chutzpah that he cannot help but admire.

And he walked on the caper, white trash chutzpah carrying him through, no one informing the police powers that be that a dead man robbed the Happy Time Liquor Store, drove a stolen La Salle up to the front door of Sergeant Turner “.