English

Alternative forms

• khutzpah
• khutspah
• chutspah
• chutzpa
• khutspe

Noun

chutzpah ‎(usually uncountable, plural chutzpahs)

1. (slang) Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion;
   • 22/01/2007, The Times, Modern Manners

     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 the chutzpah to do this.

   • 12/11/2007, John Scalzi, Whatever, Your Creation Museum Report

     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 is chutzpah.

Related terms

• chutzpadik

See also

• cheek (n.), cheekiness (n.), cheeky (adj.), immortal rind (n.)

Translations

References

• “chutzpah” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “chutzpah” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "chutzpah" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.