Meaning of chutzpah | Babel Free
ˈxʊts.pəDefinitions
Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.
Equivalents
Български
наха́лство
Deutsch
Chuzpe
Ελληνικά
μαγκιά
Esperanto
aŭdaco
Español
desfachatez
Suomi
kantti
Galego
atrevemento
עברית
חוצפה
Magyar
hücpe
Italiano
sfacciataggine
日本語
チャツパ
Nederlands
gotspe
Svenska
fräckhet
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“Okay, okay, okay… First of all, “shutspah” is actually pronounced “khootspah”. But, but-but-but the idea, the idea that daily fantasy sites are using this law to claim they’re not gambling is not chutzpah, it’s khorseshit!”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
See also
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