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May 17, 2006

Definition of "Chutzpah"

(KHOOT-spuh, HOOT-spuh) Yiddish term for courage bordering on arrogance, roughly equivalent to “nerve” (in the slang sense): “It took a lot of chutzpah to make such a controversial statement.”

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Posted by Mike Lief at May 17, 2006 12:29 AM | TrackBack

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