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chutzpah

/ˈxʊts.pə/

chutzpah noun: nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.

Noun

chutzpah (usually uncountable, plural chutzpahs)

  1. (informal, usually) Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.
    • 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.2007 January 22, Philip Howard, “Modern Manners”, in The Times
    • 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.2007 December 11, John Scalzi, “Your Creation Museum Report”, in Whatever

chutzpah meaning in Tamil and Urdu

chutzpah in Tamil

மிகு தற்பெருமை

chutzpah in Urdu

بےحیائی, زبان درازی

Synonyms of chutzpah

All synonyms of chutzpah

Forms of chutzpah

pluralchutzpahs
alternative formhutzpah
alternative formkhutzpah
alternative formkhutspah
alternative formchutspa
alternative formchutspah
alternative formchutzpa
alternative formkhutspe

Origin of chutzpah

Originated c. 1890–95 from Yiddish חוצפּה (khutspe), which was either borrowed via Medieval Hebrew or directly came from Aramaic חוּצְפָּא (ḥuṣpā, “audacity, boldness”), derived from חֲצַף (ḥăṣap̄, “to be impudent, arrogant”).

Words formed from chutzpah

Questions about chutzpah

What does chutzpah mean?
Chutzpah means nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.
What is chutzpah in Tamil?
Chutzpah in Tamil is மிகு தற்பெருமை. See Chutzpah meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chutzpah?
Chutzpah is a noun.
How do you pronounce chutzpah?
Chutzpah is pronounced /ˈxʊts.pə/.
What is the plural of chutzpah?
The plural of chutzpah is chutzpahs.

Words near chutzpah in the dictionary

  1. chuttrums
  2. chutty
  3. Chutung
  4. chutzpa
  5. chutzpadik
  6. chutzpah
  7. chutzpahs
  8. chutzpas
  9. chutzpedik
  10. chuu chuu train
  11. chuuba

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chutzpah (page history and authors); chutzpah (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chutzpah (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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