chutzpah

British  

/ ˈxʊtspə /

noun

1. informal shameless audacity; impudence

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chutzpah Cultural  

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of chutzpah

C20: from Yiddish

Example Sentences

He added: "Nigel Farage has chutzpah to return to the stage and say 'things are disastrous, and I'm the person to fix it'."

From BBC

Launching a business without your knowledge when you were about to give birth takes some chutzpah.

From MarketWatch

When the film cuts to 12 years later, nothing has changed, including his chutzpah.

From Los Angeles Times

Four years later, he had enough arriviste chutzpah to run for state governor as the candidate for the Liberty Union Party—a leftist Vermont grouping.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then you work up the chutzpah to share it with other people.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• arrogance
• audacity
• boldness
• gall