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    [Noun]  | "chutz*pah" | \ ˈhu̇t-spə \


    1: supreme self-confidence : nerve, gall


    Origin: 1867 ;

     Yiddish khutspe, from Late Hebrew ḥuṣpāh;

    [Noun]  | "chutzpah" 


    1: shameless boldness;


      * e.g., " ... had the chutzpah to demand that he be treated as a special case and be given priority in settling his insurance claim "



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     [ "chutzpah" ]

    1: daring do, balls, bravery

      * e.g.,  ... the way paul got that traffic-cop to believe he didn't kill jack with jack's body in the trunk, talk about chutzpah! 

     [ "chutzpah" ]

    1: bloody cheek with a real nerve

      * e.g.,  ... a man is up in court for killing his mother and father ... he pleads to the court for leniency ... because he is an orphan ... now that's a chutzpah 

     [ "chutzpah" ]

    1: boldness, especially of an arrogant sort (From Hebrew and/or Yiddish)

      * e.g.,  ... That artist had some major chutzpah to come up with a design like that. 

     [ "chutzpah" ]

    1: n. irrepressible gall, e.g., that exhibited by one who would dream of owning the intellectual property rights to the contents of own ungiven eulogy.

      * e.g.,  ... That's quite a big chutzpah you've in your trunk dere. 

     [ "chutzpah" ]

    1: dareness

      * e.g.,  ... Bill Pullman as James Bond! What's not to love? I give this film a "6" just for chutzpah. 

     [ "chutzpah" ]

    1: like there is a curse word for women similarly chutzpah is a word for men i.e dadfucker

      * e.g.,  ... you chutzpah!! 


     [ "chutzpah" ]

    2: chutz means fucker and pah means dad

     [ "Chutzpah" ]

    1: An essential quality that 99/100 voles lack. Other skills that voles fall behind in include lacklustre organisation skills and abysmal timekeeping.

      * e.g.,  ... "You've vole got no Chutzpah. Your organisation skills are lacklustre and your timekeeping is abysmal." 

     [ "Chutzpah" ]

    1: Daring and self belief. Feeling really funky about something and there fore not stressing about it. Chutzpah is not just a feeling but a way of life. It’s about feeling audacious and having courage in yourself.

      * e.g.,  ... Go into the exam with chutzpah and even if you don’t know anything you’ll do okay. Ethan has a bunch of chutzpah 

     [ "Chutzpah" ]

    1: Old joke about the kid who killed his parents and then pleaded for mercy in court because he was an orphan.

      * e.g.,  ... And from there you can bargain for better. You've got to have the chutzpah to keep pushing for more and more -- or in this case, less and less. 


     [ "Chutzpah" ]

    2: (taken from Digital Filmmaking 101 book by Dale Newton and Josh Gaspard, page 31)

     [ "Chutzpah" ]

    1: Chutzpah amounts to a total denial of personal responsibility, that renders others speechless and incredulous, one cannot quite believe that another person totally lacks common human traits like remorse, regret, guilt, sympathy and insight.

      * e.g.,  ... Good example of chutzpah: 

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