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Dec. 17, 2014

chutzpa \KHOOT-spuh, HOOT-\ noun 1. Slang. unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall. 2. Slang. audacity; nerve. Quotes "That's chutzpa," Levy said admiringly, "pure, unadulterated chutzpa." "What's chutzpa?" "Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance—whatever…" -- Howard Fast, The Immigrants, 1977 Origin Chutzpa came to English from Yiddish in the 1890s. This term is ultimately derived from the Aramaic ḥūṣpā.

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