chutzpah
Pronunciations
Definitions
n. Guts, confidence.
n. Nerve, audacity.
Example Sentences
"He had a lot of chutzpah telling the professor that his statement was false."
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Aramaic
- Yiddish
- Modern Hebrew
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Etymology
MH חֻצְפָּה khutspa, Y חוצפּה khutspe
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
- Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings
hutzpah, chutspa, khuptspe, hutzpa, hutspa, chutzpa
Notes
See also chutzpadik.
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