Originated 1890–95 fromYiddishחוצפּה(khutspe), which was either borrowed viaMedieval Hebrew or directly came fromAramaicחוּצְפָּא(ḥuṣpā,“audacity, boldess”), derived fromחֲצַף(ḥăṣap̄,“to be impudent, arrogant”).
chutzpah (usuallyuncountable,pluralchutzpahs)
- (informal) Nearlyarrogantcourage; utteraudacity,effrontery orimpudence;supremeself-confidence; exaggeratedself-opinion.
- Synonyms:balls,cheek,gall,nerve,boldness,audacity,insolence
2007 January 22, Philip Howard, “Modern Manners”, inThe Times[1]:If the service is rotten and the meal a disaster, we should withhold a tip and explain why we are doing so. Few of us have thechutzpah to do this.
2007 December 11, John Scalzi, “Your Creation Museum Report”, inWhatever[2]:But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word ischutzpah.
2015,Tim Carvell [et al.], “Daily Fantasy Sports”, inLast Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode34,John Oliver (actor),Warner Bros. Television, viaHBO:Okay, okay, okay… First of all, “shutspah” is actually pronounced “khootspah”. But, but-but-but the idea, the idea that daily fantasy sites are using this law to claim they’re not gambling is notchutzpah, it’s khorseshit!
nearly arrogant courage
- Bulgarian:безсрамие (bg) n(bezsramie),нахалство (bg) n(nahalstvo)
- Czech:voprsklost f,chucpe (cs),drzost (cs) f
- Dutch:gotspe (nl) f
- Esperanto:aŭdaco
- Finnish:kantti (fi)
- French:audace (fr) f,culot (fr) m,toupet (fr) m
- Galician:atrevemento (gl) m
- German:Chuzpe (de) f
- Greek:μαγκιά (el) f(magkiá)
- Hebrew:חוצפה f(khutspá)
- Hungarian:hücpe (hu)
- Icelandic:óskammfeilni f
- Italian:sfacciataggine (it) f
- Macedonian:одважност f(odvažnost),дрскост f(drskost)
- Neapolitan:cazzimma
- Polish:bezczelność (pl) f,kpina (pl) f,hucpa (pl) f
- Portuguese:atrevimento (pt) m,lata (pt),topete (pt) m
- Romanian:țâfnă (ro) f,tupeu (ro) n
- Russian:ху́цпа (ru) f(xúcpa),на́глость (ru) f(náglostʹ),наха́льство (ru) n(naxálʹstvo),ха́мство (ru) n(xámstvo),де́рзость (ru) f(dérzostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:дрскост f,дрчност f
- Roman:drskost (sh) f,drčnost (sh) f
- Spanish:desfachatez (es) f
- Swedish:fräckhet (sv)
- Ukrainian:ху́цпа f(xúcpa)
- Yiddish:חוצפּה f(khutspe)
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- “chutzpah”, inThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.:Houghton Mifflin,2000,→ISBN.
- “chutzpah”, inDictionary.com Unabridged,Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "chutzpah" inWordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
