Chutzpah
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Chutzpah
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Chutzpah is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. A close English equivalent is sometimes "hubris". The word derives from the Hebrew ḥuṣpāh (חֻצְפָּה), meaning "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity". Thus, the original Yiddish word has a strongly negative connotation, but the form which entered English as a Yiddishism in American English has taken on a broader meaning, having been popularized through vernacular use in film, literature, and television. In American English the word is sometime
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Quality of audacity, of Yiddish origin into English
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah
date created:
2004-06-23T06:37:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T02:07:54Z
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