Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Utter nerve; effrontery.
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- noun slang Nearly
arrogant courage ; utteraudacity ,effrontery orimpudence ;supreme self-confidence ; exaggerated self-opinion;
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- noun (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Michele Bachman's failing attempt to pronounce the word "chutzpah" correctly last week was nothing short of ignorant.
Rabbi Jason Miller: Michele Bachmann's Choot-spa Moment Rabbi Jason Miller 2011
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Michele Bachman's failing attempt to pronounce the word "chutzpah" correctly last week was nothing short of ignorant.
Rabbi Jason Miller: Michele Bachmann's Choot-spa Moment Rabbi Jason Miller 2011
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And people I trust tell me I practically invented the word "chutzpah."
Dovid Efune: Israel Without Rupert Murdoch Dovid Efune 2011
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And people I trust tell me I practically invented the word chutzpah.
Dovid Efune: Top 10 Non-Jews Positively Influencing The Jewish Future Dovid Efune 2011
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And people I trust tell me I practically invented the word chutzpah.
Dovid Efune: Top 10 Non-Jews Positively Influencing The Jewish Future Dovid Efune 2011
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And people I trust tell me I practically invented the word "chutzpah."
Dovid Efune: Israel Without Rupert Murdoch Dovid Efune 2011
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I particularly enjoyed Jagger's contribution, doing the voice almost as well as Phil Cornwell used to do it in Stella Street, although I should have thought a lyric interpreter like Jagger might have made a better fist of pronouncing the Yiddish word chutzpah.
Tendulkar or Talksport: July's ultimate Test | Martin Kelner 2011
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And people I trust tell me I practically invented the word chutzpah.
Dovid Efune: Top 10 Non-Jews Positively Influencing The Jewish Future Dovid Efune 2011
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But the thing that really bugs me about Cheney's quote (again, he said, regarding torture, that: "The fact of the matter is the Justice Department reviewed all those allegations several years ago.") is that in using the Justice Department as justification, he brings to mind the old story used to define the Yiddish word chutzpah: Someone who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.
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I wrote earlier this month that McCain's claims of being an agent of change, when he was at the heart of everything that needed changing, was the ultimate example of the Yiddish word chutzpah (nerve).
Mitchell Bard: It's Time for the "Deregulators" Like McCain to Step Aside and Shut Up 2008
dbmag9 commented on the word chutzpah
A boy is taken to court for murdering both of his parents. He pleads to the jury for mercy - after all, he is an orphan.
December 3, 2006
gangerh commented on the word chutzpah
Love The Classic, dbmag9, haven't heard it before.
Meanwhile, not as noteworthy, here's mine.
Fellow in a book shop goes to the counter with a book entitled 'Chutzpah' and says "I want this book and I'd like you to buy it for me."
February 1, 2008